The Universitario Popayan Gazette
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Kevin Sanchez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market25 Jan 2027
David Giraldo 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 The request is on a desk at Universitario Popayan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market25 Jan 2027
Felipe Romero comes home
The shirt still fits. Felipe Romero is back at Universitario Popayan, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market25 Jan 2027
Jose Ramirez is a Universitario Popayan player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market25 Jan 2027
Kevin Murillo comes home
The shirt still fits. Kevin Murillo is back at Universitario Popayan, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Universitario Popayan
David Ramirez 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
137% of the income goes out in wages at Universitario Popayan
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Oscar Torres gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Costly mistake from Oscar Torres
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Oscar Torres knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
In brief
- Match Universitario Popayan and Patriotas take a point apiece
- Squad A first senior shirt for Juan Manuel Mosquera