The Alianza Atletico Sentinel
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Alianza Atletico
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Valentín Robaldo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Luis Caceda joins the Alianza Atletico first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luis Caceda is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match6 Feb 2027
A bad afternoon for Alianza Atletico against Cienciano
0‑1 to Cienciano, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Alianza Atletico
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anthony Gordillo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Alianza Atletico
Román Suárez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Edison Cartagena faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Edison Cartagena after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
When it matters, Erick Perleche plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Erick Perleche
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Carlos Cáceda
- The dugout Jimmy Pérez knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad The room hears from Carlos Cáceda