The Sport Huancayo Sentinel
Squad8 Feb 2027
The knee: Rick Campodónico out for 71 days
71 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sport Huancayo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market8 Feb 2027
Angel Zamudio hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sport Huancayo can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Ricardo Salcedo scores twice — 8.08
Two goals and a mark of 8.08 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market8 Feb 2027
Aldair Ccorahua has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sport Huancayo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Sport Huancayo
4 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Sport Huancayo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nahuel Luján was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match6 Feb 2027
Ricardo Salcedo the difference as Sport Huancayo beat Sporting Cristal
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ricardo Salcedo. 3‑1 against Sporting Cristal, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Jeremy Rostaing runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market8 Feb 2027
Andre Garces steps up from the Sport Huancayo academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andre Garces has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Sport Huancayo promote Wilder Benavente from within
- The dugout A satisfied Victor Pena
- The dugout Piero Magallanes gets it from the manager