Marked for Yorleys Mena
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Sport Huancayo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Yorleys Mena 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Nahuel Luján 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.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Deportivo Riestra to sit and watch. I want to come back to Sport Huancayo and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 8 matches say the rest.
Match27 Feb 2027
Cienciano left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Jeremy Rostaing
“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.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Age has not caught Yorleys Mena yet — 7.99
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.99 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Nahuel Luján 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Yorleys Mena. 1‑0 against Cesar Vallejo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Hugo Ángeles 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Juan Barreda gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Age has not caught Yorleys Mena yet — 7.90
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.90 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Nahuel Luján 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 Sport Huancayo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match13 Feb 2027
A 2‑0 win over Deportivo Municipal, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Ninety minutes of Nahuel Luján at his very best
Marked 8.15. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sport Huancayo.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Diego Mesones 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.
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Crisis
Squad8 Feb 2027
Yorleys Mena 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 Sport Huancayo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Sport Huancayo
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Sport Huancayo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nahuel Luján 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market8 Feb 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabriel Cartagena 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Victor Trauco 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luis Carrillo 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Beto Caceda 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.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Yorleys Mena 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Nahuel Luján 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The manager plants his flag on Nahuel Luján
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Nahuel Luján’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Juan Barreda out for 27 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sport Huancayo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sport Huancayo can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Nahuel Luján 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 Sport Huancayo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Sport Huancayo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yorleys Mena 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Piero Magallanes and Sport Huancayo agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market4 Jan 2027
Still no offer on the table, and Piero Magallanes’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Juan Barreda breaks a bone — 35 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sport Huancayo can pretend not to have heard.
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Uneasy
Market14 Dec 2026
$2.0M from Juan Aurich for Angel Zamudio. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Juan Barreda breaks a bone — 51 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
Supporters turn on the $2.0M sale of Angel Zamudio
He is going to Juan Aurich, the club has $2.0M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market14 Dec 2026
The offer from Cienciano for Aldair Ccorahua was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Nahuel Luján 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Yorleys Mena 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.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Juan Barreda breaks a bone — 60 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Dec 2026
The bid was some way short and Sport Huancayo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Yorleys Mena 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Nahuel Luján 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Sport Huancayo has been clear about where Gustavo Martini Rissi stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market7 Dec 2026
Sport Huancayo have let the market know Angel Zamudio can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Juan Barreda breaks a bone — 76 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market23 Nov 2026
Angel Zamudio 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 Sport Huancayo can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Yorleys Mena for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Sport Huancayo will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Nahuel Luján 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Hugo Ángeles 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The manager plants his flag on Nahuel Luján
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Nahuel Luján’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Brackson Céliz
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sport Huancayo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer from Slovacko for Yorleys Mena was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nahuel Luján 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
UTC ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Sport Huancayo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.