The Universitario Popayan Gazette
Boardroom27 Jan 2031
Kevin Palacios is out at Universitario Popayan
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Boardroom27 Jan 2031
A stranger takes charge at Universitario Popayan
The coaching staff has emptied out entirely and there was nobody internal to promote, so the club has appointed a name almost none of its supporters will recognise. Clubs recover from this; none of them enjoy explaining it.
Market27 Jan 2031
Mateo Guerra 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 The request is on a desk at Universitario Popayan, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout27 Jan 2031
Sebastian Martinez keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Universitario Popayan may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom27 Jan 2031
Interim Coach steps up at Universitario Popayan for now
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
Match25 Jan 2031
5 matches without a win for Universitario Popayan
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Universitario Popayan are no longer polite ones.
Squad27 Jan 2031
Jan Franc Lucumí 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.
Boardroom27 Jan 2031
Graduation day at Universitario Popayan
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad27 Jan 2031
A row about effort at Universitario Popayan
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan Diego Mendoza was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Player ratings Jan Franc Lucumí runs at them all day
- Market One of our own: Ivan Lemos joins the Universitario Popayan first team
- Market One of our own: Fernando Falcao joins the Universitario Popayan first team