The Universitario Popayan Gazette
Squad12 Oct 2026
Edwin Herrera damages knee ligaments — 52 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 52 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Universitario Popayan
Wilmar Duque was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
David Duque 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Universitario Popayan lose Alejandro Restrepo
34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nicolas Cardona gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Nicolas Cardona is on it.
Market12 Oct 2026
Universitario Popayan and Camilo Barrios are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Market Universitario Popayan shop where it costs nothing
- The dugout Miguel Cuadrado knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Edwin Duque