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Edition
The Universitario Popayan Gazette
31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristiano Amaral
134 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Universitario Popayan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Kevin Rios 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Cristian Vargas
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Squad Gustavo Cordoba is out on the grass again