Manuel Mina

Central Defender - Universitario Popayan
3 Jan 2027
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Marked for Manuel Mina

17 Edition

The Universitario Popayan Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Universitario Popayan

Yerry Restrepo 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.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Manuel Mina 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.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Hugo Restrepo knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hugo Restrepo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

  • Squad Jose Perez is not doing himself any favours
Back issues
14 Edition

The Universitario Popayan Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad2 Nov 2026

Tomás Maya signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tomás Maya and Universitario Popayan agree another 3 years.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Tomás Maya has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Universitario Popayan know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Tomás Maya knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Universitario Popayan, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

8 Edition

The Universitario Popayan Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Sep 2026

Diego Moreno 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Universitario Popayan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manuel Mina 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Questions about Oscar Castillo on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

In brief