The UTC Herald
The dugout8 Feb 2027
David Camacho says UTC 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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Adolfo Muñoz was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
3 academy graduates step up at UTC
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Alexander Aquino joins the UTC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alexander Aquino 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
UTC promote Christian Callens from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christian Callens 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
UTC promote Sergio Lapadula from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sergio Lapadula 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
A bad afternoon for UTC against Universitario
0‑1 to Universitario, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at UTC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean Deza 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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Roberto Lapadula faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Roberto Lapadula after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Dylan Caro
- Market The Adolfo Muñoz question follows UTC around
- The dugout Franz Schmidt does not fit this one