Benito Yllaconza

Central Midfielder - UTC
26 Nov 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Benito Yllaconza

13 Edition

The UTC Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Cleber Saldaña 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 The request is on a desk at UTC, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

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.

Squad

24 new faces, and UTC are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad

Edinson Chávez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Edinson Chávez and UTC agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Benito Yllaconza is a square peg at UTC

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market

Experience through the door at UTC

Edinson Chávez arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The UTC Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Marcelo Ballesteros hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what UTC can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Ronald Huamán is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Time is catching up with Marcos Lliuya

Everybody at UTC saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 34 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Squad

Tempers go at UTC

Jean Deza was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Abdiel Arroyo falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Experience through the door at UTC

Benito Yllaconza arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief