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The Universitario Popayan Gazette
31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Fernando Martinez 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 The request is on a desk at Universitario Popayan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Fernando Martinez 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Universitario Popayan lose Miguel Cardona
47 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Squad Francisco Martinez signs on for more
- Squad Tempers go at Universitario Popayan