The Alianza Lima Sentinel
Squad5 Feb 2029
Eryc Castillo damages knee ligaments — 71 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 71 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market5 Feb 2029
Gianfranco Chávez puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Alianza Lima, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings5 Feb 2029
No sign of nerves from Piero Cari at 21 — 8.02
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Piero Cari did not need any: 8.02, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match3 Feb 2029
Alianza Lima make home a hard place to visit
11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Words exchanged at Alianza Lima
Bryan Reyna 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.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
7 academy players handed senior numbers at Alianza Lima
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.
Match3 Feb 2029
Alianza Lima see off Cesar Vallejo
Three points for Alianza Lima, 3‑1 the final word against Cesar Vallejo in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces5 Feb 2029
The crowd has taken to Piero Cari
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market5 Feb 2029
Jose Carrillo steps up from the Alianza Lima academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jose Carrillo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Renato Trauco joins the Alianza Lima first team
- Market One of our own: Edison Mora joins the Alianza Lima first team
- Player ratings One of those days for Gastón Togni