The Universitario Gazette
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Héctor Fertoli
48 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Universitario lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market8 Feb 2027
César Inga wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Universitario
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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Universitario promote Cristian Santamaria from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cristian Santamaria 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Jefferson Garces joins the Universitario first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jefferson Garces is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
Universitario promote Horacio Garces from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Horacio Garces 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Universitario training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anderson Santamaría 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Martín Pérez Guedes
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martín Pérez Guedes, and the manager let it.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Jairo Concha runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Squad Gustavo Torres signs a new deal
- Loan watch Miguel Silveira counts the days
- Match Point won or two lost for Universitario?