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Edition
The Ayacucho Post
12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Marked for Dick Ríos
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Dick Ríos’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Ayacucho will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.
Match12 Aug 2026
Cesar Vallejo go through and Ayacucho go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 5 of the 19 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Carlos Uribe 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. José Ataupillco 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Carlos Uribe 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I watch sessions differently now. I catch myself thinking about why we are doing the drill.” At 34 that is how nearly every man in a dugout started.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Carlos Uribe commits to Ayacucho for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ayacucho this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.