The Universitario Popayan Gazette
Squad4 Jan 2027
Jose Cardona damages knee ligaments — 113 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 113 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market4 Jan 2027
Jose Cardona puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Universitario Popayan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Daniel Zapata in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Universitario Popayan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces4 Jan 2027
$50.0K for Deimer Longas, and Universitario Popayan supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Deimer Longas from Independiente Medellin for $50.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Jorge Mejia falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Universitario Popayan lose Sergio Santos
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Market Universitario Popayan sign Deimer Longas, one for the future
- Market Duro placed on the list