Marked for Luis Advíncula
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Market21 Dec 2026
The offer from Alianza Atletico for Juan Camilo Romero 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Alianza Lima heard it as anything else.
Market21 Dec 2026
The fee is $290.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Union Magdalena drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Luis Advíncula 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Alan Cantero
“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.
Market21 Dec 2026
The name of Piero Cari has come up in conversations Alianza Lima were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Back issues
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Market30 Nov 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad30 Nov 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 Alianza Lima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Girotti, and the manager let it.
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Squad23 Nov 2026
Luis Advíncula 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Federico Girotti asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Josué Estrada has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Alianza Lima will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 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 Alianza Lima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Alan Cantero
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Brady Paz 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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Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alan Cantero and Alianza Lima agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Luis Advíncula 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Cristian Carbajal has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Alianza Lima will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Market2 Nov 2026
Federico Girotti wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Alianza Lima hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Alianza Lima will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The captaincy goes to Luis Advíncula. It is not a job that wins matches, but a dressing room always notices who is given it.
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Squad26 Oct 2026
Luis Advíncula 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Esteban Pavez pulls a muscle — 16 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Josué Estrada has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Alianza Lima will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Gaspar Gentile out for 27 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Alianza Lima will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Luis Advíncula 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Luis Ramos wants continental football; whether Alianza Lima can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
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Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Gaspar Gentile out for 34 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Alianza Lima will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market5 Oct 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad5 Oct 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 Alianza Lima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Gaspar Gentile out for 41 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Alianza Lima will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Luis Advíncula 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jean Pierre Archimbaud wants continental football; whether Alianza Lima can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
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Squad21 Sep 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 Alianza Lima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Federico Girotti trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jairo Vélez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Alianza Lima will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Squad31 Aug 2026
Luis Advíncula 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Josué Estrada has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Alianza Lima will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Gianfranco Chávez plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Match19 Aug 2026
A 0‑0 win over Sport Huancayo, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Alejandro Duarte: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Squad24 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 Alianza Lima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Brady Paz 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jairo Vélez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Alianza Lima will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Luis Advíncula 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
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Alianza Lima that is a harder question to answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Questions about Jefferson Churi on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Federico Girotti and Alianza Lima agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Luis Advíncula 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eryc Castillo, and the manager let it.
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Squad3 Aug 2026
3 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market3 Aug 2026
Federico Girotti wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Alianza Lima hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luis Advíncula commits to Alianza Lima 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 Alianza Lima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Alianza Lima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Gaibor 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.