The Universitario Popayan Gazette
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Nicolas Medina
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market25 Jan 2027
Daniel Ramirez comes home
The shirt still fits. Daniel Ramirez 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
As if he never left: Alfredo Vargas returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Alfredo Vargas is a Universitario Popayan player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market25 Jan 2027
Oscar Hernandez comes home
The shirt still fits. Oscar Hernandez 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
Sergio Ramirez comes home
The shirt still fits. Sergio Ramirez 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
Agustín Echaide 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Universitario Popayan lose Ángel Méndez
75 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
A masterclass from Mateo Borja
Marked 8.54 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Javier Montero in the eights
A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Iván Regules
- Boardroom 111% of the income goes out in wages at Universitario Popayan
- Match Universitario Popayan and Aguilas Doradas take a point apiece