Edison Flores

Left Midfielder - Universitario
7 Mar 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Edison Flores

30 Edition

The Universitario Gazette

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jairo Concha

Successful dribbles: 45. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Lisandro Alzugaray breaks a bone — 61 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 61 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Alex Valera 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 Universitario this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Jesús Castillo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jesús Castillo, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at Universitario training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anderson Santamaría 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.

Player ratings

Edison Flores was the difference for Universitario

Marked 7.96. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

Back issues
29 Edition

The Universitario Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Lisandro Alzugaray breaks a bone — 70 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 70 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Edison Flores

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Edison Flores wants European nights

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Universitario

Alex Valera 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.

Match

Universitario get the job done against Juan Aurich

A 1‑0 win over Juan Aurich, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

One of those days for Jairo Concha

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Loan watch

Rodrigo Dioses counts the days

“I watch every Universitario game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Alianza Atletico runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Words at Universitario training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Sánchez 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

Universitario pick somebody else ahead of Gianluca Lapadula

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.

In brief

20 Edition

The Universitario Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Bryan Reyna out for 24 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Universitario will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The terraces

Universitario sell a favourite for $2.0M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Yuriel Celi was one of the reasons people came, and $2.0M does not replace that by itself.

Market

Alianza Atletico come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Universitario did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Yuriel Celi moves on

Cesar Vallejo pay $2.0M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Business is business: Miguel Silveira goes

Cienciano paid $1.8M and Universitario took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Universitario may not be able to give Edison Flores what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Edison Flores wants continental football; whether Universitario can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

In brief

9 Edition

The Universitario Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Diego Romero out for 47 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Universitario will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Alex Valera 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 Universitario can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Edison Flores wants European nights

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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Universitario Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Diego Romero breaks a bone — 106 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 106 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Orlando City come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Universitario did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Edison Flores wants European nights

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.

Squad

Jesús Castillo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jesús Castillo and Universitario agree another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Universitario

Alex Valera 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.

Market

Nobody at Universitario has picked up the phone to Andy Polo

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief