The Universitario Popayan Gazette
Match22 Jan 2028
The wait goes on for Universitario Popayan
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
Juan Manuel Correa says Universitario Popayan went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
The paperwork begins on Luis Palacios
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Universitario Popayan have done the hard part with Deportivo Pasto, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Cristian Murillo 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.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
Too dear: Universitario Popayan walk away from Cristian Montero
$250.0K was the most the club would pay and Cortulua were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Elian Londoño signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Elian Londoño commits to Universitario Popayan for another 3 years.
Match22 Jan 2028
3 matches without a goal for Universitario Popayan
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Words at Universitario Popayan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Victor Valencia is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Transfer targets Door shut on Luis Palacios
- Market One of our own: Sergio Sinisterra joins the Universitario Popayan first team
- Market Universitario Popayan promote Cristian Quintero from within