The Sport Huancayo Sentinel
Match12 Aug 2026
Carlos Jiménez sends Sport Huancayo through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Carlos Jiménez obliged against UTC. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Sport Huancayo.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Leonardo Villar delivers — 7.71
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Leonardo Villar scored, was marked 7.71, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jeremy Canela 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.
Squad17 Aug 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Juan Giménez
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Cristian Gallese kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Market17 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Sport Huancayo and Juan Ignacio Silva
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sport Huancayo, another week without a signature from Juan Ignacio Silva.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Nahuel Luján left out for tactical reasons at Sport Huancayo
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
When it matters, Jean Franco Falconí plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Squad The first one for Leonardo Villar
- Player ratings Maikoll Herrera was unplayable
- Market Sport Huancayo pick up Junior Dávila for nothing