The Universitario Popayan Gazette
Match10 Jan 2028
Universitario Popayan sink to position 12
15 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market10 Jan 2028
Marlon Flórez 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 The request is on a desk at Universitario Popayan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A move Agustín Nieto would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Agustín Nieto is living that version at Universitario Popayan, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Tempers go at Universitario Popayan
Sebastián Macías 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.
Boardroom10 Jan 2028
Still nobody in the Universitario Popayan dugout
9 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words at Universitario Popayan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carlos Campos is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Squad Somebody is after Cristiano Gutiérrez’s shirt
- Market Universitario Popayan pick up Agustín Nieto for nothing
- Market Edwin Moreno leaves for nothing
- Market Hugo Moreno leaves for nothing