The Universitario Gazette
Match13 Aug 2029
The view from the top for Universitario
57 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market13 Aug 2029
Diego Hernández 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 The request is on a desk at Universitario, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market13 Aug 2029
Only the photograph left for Diego Hernández
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Diego Hernández will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Universitario the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout13 Aug 2029
Agustín Ramírez: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Universitario have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad13 Aug 2029
A move Gianfranco Chávez 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. Gianfranco Chávez is living that version at Universitario, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom13 Aug 2029
Juan Pablo Díaz signs for Sporting Cristal while still at Universitario
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Juan Pablo Díaz has agreed terms with Sporting Cristal for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Universitario
Rodrigo Bogarín 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.
Squad13 Aug 2029
A row about effort at Universitario
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marcos López was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market13 Aug 2029
Universitario promote Nelson Caceda from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nelson Caceda has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Universitario promote Juan Caceda from within
- Squad Paul Riveros signs a new deal
- The dugout Jairo Concha has become a man the manager trusts