The Universitario Popayan Gazette
Squad18 Dec 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Victor Torres
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Universitario Popayan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match18 Dec 2028
Universitario Popayan are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 36 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad18 Dec 2028
The season belongs to Rodrigo Moriñigo
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Universitario Popayan have had the benefit of it.
Market18 Dec 2028
Only the photograph left for Junior Palacios
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Junior Palacios will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Universitario Popayan the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Juan Cruz Crisafulli gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Juan Cruz Crisafulli has just signed for Universitario Popayan, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Juan Cruz Crisafulli stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Juan Cruz Crisafulli and Universitario Popayan agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Market A long bet from Universitario Popayan on Juan Cruz Crisafulli
- Market Universitario Popayan sign Iván Otero, one for the future
- Market Fernando Falcao placed on the list