Carlos Jiménez

Striker - Sport Huancayo
27 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Carlos Jiménez

108 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Axel Chávez breaks a bone — 49 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Sport Huancayo boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Alejandro Alcalá has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sport Huancayo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Sport Huancayo may not be able to give Angel Zamudio what he wants

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

Squad

A falling-out at Sport Huancayo

Angel Zamudio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Diego Carabaño has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Sport Huancayo 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.

Squad

Words at Sport Huancayo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bautista Biffi 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.

The dugout

Carlos Jiménez 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.

The dugout

Thiago Segura has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Thiago Segura has written the date down.

In brief

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106 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

66 days out for Axel Chávez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Sport Huancayo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Boardroom

Alexander Pena has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Sport Huancayo can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad

Lautaro Gaitán arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Lautaro Gaitán has, at Sport Huancayo, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market

Only the photograph left for Carlos Jiménez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Carlos Jiménez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sport Huancayo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout

Eduardo Legario says Sport Huancayo went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at Sport Huancayo

Angel Zamudio 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.

Squad

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 dugout

When it matters, Piero Magallanes 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.

The dugout

Leonardo Villar 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.

In brief

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31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Sport Huancayo board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

A fracture rules Axel Chávez out for 74 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.

Market

Sport Huancayo turn down Deportivo Municipal for Carlos Jiménez

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

The Ayacucho deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Aldair Ccorahua reports back to Sport Huancayo with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Transfer targets

Sport Huancayo rebuffed over Máximo Guzmán

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tigre have kept their man, and Sport Huancayo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sport Huancayo

Edú Villar and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Sport Huancayo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nahuel Luján was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

José Cavadia gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say José Cavadia is on it.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Alejandro Alcalá's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief

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The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Axel Chávez breaks a bone — 97 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 97 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

The season ends: position 8 for Sport Huancayo

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 23 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Market

Carlos Jiménez agrees terms with Deportivo Municipal

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Sport Huancayo people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Only the photograph left for Alejandro Alcalá

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alejandro Alcalá will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sport Huancayo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Sport Huancayo

Angel Zamudio 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.

Transfer targets

Sport Huancayo rebuffed over Lucas Passerini

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Belgrano have kept their man, and Sport Huancayo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Alianza Lima take the points off Sport Huancayo

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

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.

Squad

Brando Preciado signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Brando Preciado and Sport Huancayo agree another 4 years.

In brief

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3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Sport Huancayo board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

A fracture rules Axel Chávez out for 105 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.

Squad

Leonardo Villar damages knee ligaments — 18 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

Alexander Pena has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Sport Huancayo can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad

7 saves: Aldair Ccorahua was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Carlos Jiménez has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sport Huancayo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout

Aldair Ccorahua: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sport Huancayo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Sport Huancayo say no — this time

The offer from UTC for Sebastián Aranda 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.

Transfer targets

Ulises Ortegoza will not be coming to Sport Huancayo

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Talleres is saying, and nobody at Sport Huancayo is enjoying the guessing.

In brief

98 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Juan Ignacio Silva

22 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.

Match

Giuseppe Valdeavellano sends Sport Huancayo through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Giuseppe Valdeavellano obliged against Sporting Cristal. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Sport Huancayo.

Match

Giuseppe Valdeavellano wins it after the whistle should have gone

99 minutes played. Giuseppe Valdeavellano found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Sporting Cristal went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Market

Terms done: Carlos Jiménez is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Deportivo Municipal waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Sport Huancayo is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Gustavo Martini Rissi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sport Huancayo, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Brandon Palacios: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sport Huancayo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at Sport Huancayo

Edú Villar and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to José Cavadia

At 22 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.

Match

Wilmar Arango sends Sport Huancayo past Ayacucho

It finished 1‑0, and it was Wilmar Arango’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sport Huancayo.

In brief

82 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

The Ayacucho deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Andy Contreras reports back to Sport Huancayo with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad

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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sport Huancayo

Thiago Taborda and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings

Rick Campodónico stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.86 on the card, and the Sport Huancayo support went home talking about one name.

Match

Nahuel Luján rescues a point for Sport Huancayo

It needed Nahuel Luján to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Cesar Vallejo, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Carlos Jiménez 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.

The dugout

Piero Magallanes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Piero Magallanes is on it.

The dugout

Alexander Pena on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Alexander Pena after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Squad

Rick Campodónico named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Rick Campodónico has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

In brief

80 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Angel Zamudio stands alone

11 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings

Piero Magallanes scores twice — 8.42

Two goals and a mark of 8.42 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The dugout

Ciro Contreras: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sport Huancayo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

So close: Carlos Jiménez’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Juan Aurich moved on, Carlos Jiménez reports back to Sport Huancayo, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Market

Only the photograph left for Giuseppe Valdeavellano

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Giuseppe Valdeavellano will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sport Huancayo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Sport Huancayo

Angel Zamudio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Sport Huancayo

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

A row about effort at Sport Huancayo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jeremy Rostaing was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jeremy Rostaing

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

In brief

79 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Sport Huancayo sink to position 11

20 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Marcelo Gaona asks to leave Sport Huancayo

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Aldair Ccorahua has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sport Huancayo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sport Huancayo

Angel Zamudio and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Sport Huancayo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nahuel Luján was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Juan Ignacio Silva 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.

Market

Eyes on Andy Contreras again

The phone has started ringing about Andy Contreras again, and this time the name on the line is Ayacucho. Sport Huancayo are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

The Carlos Jiménez conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Juan Aurich will make the call about Carlos Jiménez this week. Sport Huancayo have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

The dugout

Piero Magallanes 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.

In brief

78 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Giuseppe Valdeavellano agrees terms with Deportivo Municipal

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Sport Huancayo people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Paolo Reyna will not be coming to Sport Huancayo

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Universitario is saying, and nobody at Sport Huancayo is enjoying the guessing.

Market

Lucas Serna Marín asks to leave Sport Huancayo

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Only the photograph left for Carlos Jiménez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Carlos Jiménez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sport Huancayo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Sport Huancayo

Angel Zamudio 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.

Squad

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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Tomás Parmo

Sport Huancayo asked and Independiente said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Sport Huancayo try to borrow Ian Subiabre

River Plate have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Sport Huancayo ask about Jonás Miszczuk

A loan enquiry to River Plate: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

76 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Carlos Jiménez has said yes to Juan Aurich

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Sport Huancayo have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Giuseppe Valdeavellano is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sport Huancayo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Sport Huancayo

Angel Zamudio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

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.

Transfer targets

Juan Aurich tell Sport Huancayo: Eduardo Figueroa is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets

Sport Huancayo try to borrow Tomás Parmo

Independiente have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

A loan move for José Cavadia is in the works

Sport Huancayo have made the call to Millonarios. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market

Alianza Atletico expected to open talks for Aldair Ccorahua

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Sport Huancayo will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

The dugout

When it matters, Piero Magallanes 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

75 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Every point is an argument now for Sport Huancayo

Position 11 and 20 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom

Sport Huancayo spell it out for Alexander Pena

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Alexander Pena has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at Sport Huancayo

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Market

Ayacucho come back empty-handed

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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Aldair Ccorahua

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Aldair Ccorahua will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sport Huancayo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets

Luca Franco turns down Sport Huancayo

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Racing Club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

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.

Transfer targets

Racing Club tell Sport Huancayo: Axel Guerra is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Thiago Taborda 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.

In brief

74 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Giuseppe Valdeavellano agrees terms with Cienciano

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Sport Huancayo people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Paolo Reyna turns down Sport Huancayo

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Universitario keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Market

Carlos Jiménez asks to leave Sport Huancayo

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

Sport Huancayo rebuffed over Tomás Blanco

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Vélez have kept their man, and Sport Huancayo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Massimo Sandi attracts admirers

The name of Massimo Sandi has come up in conversations Sport Huancayo were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

The dugout

Juan Ignacio Silva 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Sport Huancayo

Thiago Taborda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

The Edú Villar conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Melgar will make the call about Edú Villar this week. Sport Huancayo have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad

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.

In brief

71 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Sport Huancayo are in real trouble now

Position 11, 20 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Boardroom

Sport Huancayo spell it out for Alexander Pena

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Alexander Pena has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market

Jean Franco Falconí asks to leave Sport Huancayo

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

A falling-out at Sport Huancayo

Angel Zamudio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Luis Iberico

Sport Huancayo asked and Universitario said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Leonardo Villar stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Leonardo Villar and Sport Huancayo agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Sport Huancayo keep their word to Franco Caballero

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad

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.

Transfer targets

Sport Huancayo try to borrow Gonzalo Lencina

Gimnasia La Plata have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

62 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Sport Huancayo spell it out for Alexander Pena

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Alexander Pena has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Squad

A fracture rules Lucas Serna Marín out for 24 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.

The dugout

Maikoll Herrera frozen out at Sport Huancayo

This is not rotation. Maikoll Herrera has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Sport Huancayo is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Ricardo Salcedo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ricardo Salcedo and Sport Huancayo agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Angel Zamudio 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.

The dugout

Marcelo Gaona 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.

Squad

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.

The dugout

Hugo Ángeles has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Sport Huancayo 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.

The dugout

Carlos Jiménez loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Carlos Jiménez's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

In brief

60 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Lucas Serna Marín breaks a bone — 40 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

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.

Squad

Hugo Ángeles is slowing down

At 33, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Squad

Tempers go at Sport Huancayo

Thiago Taborda 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

A loan that did nothing for Carlos Jiménez

4 appearances and 0 goals is not a season away, it is a year lost. He is back at Sport Huancayo no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their fault.

The dugout

Diego Carabaño gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Diego Carabaño is on it.

In brief

59 Edition

The Ayacucho Post

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Words at Ayacucho training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gastón González 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

Words exchanged at Ayacucho

Edison Unocc and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jiries Salem

“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.

In brief

58 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Alexander Pena has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Sport Huancayo can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad

A fracture rules Lucas Serna Marín out for 58 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.

Squad

Ricardo Salcedo has been here 10 seasons

378 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.

Market

Aldair Ccorahua has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sport Huancayo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Angel Zamudio 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.

The dugout

Maikoll Herrera frozen out at Sport Huancayo

This is not rotation. Maikoll Herrera has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Sport Huancayo is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Alexander Callens signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexander Callens commits to Sport Huancayo for another 2 years.

Loan watch

Carlos Jiménez wants to come home

“I did not go to Ayacucho to sit and watch. I want to come back to Sport Huancayo and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 37 matches say the rest.

The dugout

The manager's exit leaves Nahuel Luján exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Nahuel Luján is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

In brief

55 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Every point is an argument now for Sport Huancayo

Position 11 and 20 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

80 days out for Lucas Serna Marín after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Sport Huancayo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

A falling-out at Sport Huancayo

Angel Zamudio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

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.

The dugout

Sport Huancayo keep their word to Angel Zamudio

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout

Piero Magallanes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Piero Magallanes is on it.

The dugout

Juan Ignacio Silva 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.

Market

The shop window has Javier Sanguinetti in it

Sport Huancayo have let the market know Javier Sanguinetti can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Squad

Brando Preciado wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Sport Huancayo will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

In brief

49 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Franco Caballero 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.

Squad

Massimo Sandi keeps Sport Huancayo in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Time is catching up with Ricardo Salcedo

Everybody at Sport Huancayo saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 37 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Squad

Axel Chávez signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Axel Chávez and Sport Huancayo agree another 4 years.

Squad

A row about effort at Sport Huancayo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nahuel Luján was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Sport Huancayo rebuffed over Federico Bisanz

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lanús have kept their man, and Sport Huancayo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Alianza Atletico take the points off Sport Huancayo

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Loan watch

Carlos Jiménez wants to come home

“I did not go to Ayacucho to sit and watch. I want to come back to Sport Huancayo and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 28 matches say the rest.

Match

Piero Magallanes answers Alianza Atletico immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Piero Magallanes had Sport Huancayo level again within 4 minutes, and Alianza Atletico never got to play with a lead at all.

In brief

40 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Hugo Ángeles says Sport Huancayo went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

5 matches without a win for Sport Huancayo

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Sport Huancayo are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A row about effort at Sport Huancayo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nahuel Luján was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch

Carlos Jiménez wants to come home

“I did not go to Ayacucho to sit and watch. I want to come back to Sport Huancayo and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 19 matches say the rest.

Player ratings

The game went through Diego Carabaño — 6.89

Marked 6.89 on 12 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Match

Sporting Cristal take the points off Sport Huancayo

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jeremy Rostaing

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

Squad

Fernando Cosciuc 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.

Squad

Alexander Callens is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Alexander Callens has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Squad Thiago Segura named in the team of the month
  • The dugout Angel Zamudio knocks on the manager’s door
35 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Squad

Time is catching up with Javier Sanguinetti

Everybody at Sport Huancayo saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Squad

A row about effort at Sport Huancayo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hugo Ángeles was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Sport Huancayo

6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

When it matters, Piero Magallanes 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.

The dugout

Jeremy Rostaing knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sport Huancayo, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

No hiding place for Massimo Sandi

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

Looking ahead

Rick Campodónico goes back to face UTC

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Rick Campodónico’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Sport Huancayo needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Market

Diego Carabaño placed on the list

Sport Huancayo have made Diego Carabaño available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

30 Edition

The Ayacucho Post

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Carlos Jiménez says Ayacucho went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

The wait goes on for Ayacucho

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Leonel Valencia 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 Ayacucho this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Matías González did the work nobody counts — 6.50

12 combined actions and 6.50. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alonso Tamariz

“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.

Squad

José Ataupillco 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.

Match

Ayacucho caught on 92 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Juan Aurich scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

The dugout

Ayacucho pick somebody else ahead of Saúl Reyes

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.

Match

Ayacucho share the spoils with Juan Aurich

A 1‑1 draw with Juan Aurich leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

21 Edition

The Ayacucho Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Diego Virrueta

83 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ayacucho lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A move Nicolas Castillo would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Nicolas Castillo is living that version at Ayacucho, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Real improvement from Liberson Soto at Ayacucho

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Liberson Soto is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets

Universitario tell Ayacucho: Andy Polo is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alonso Tamariz

“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.

Squad

Branco Serrano signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Branco Serrano commits to Ayacucho for another 1 years.

Transfer targets

Ayacucho try to borrow Aldair Ccorahua

Sport Huancayo have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Jefferson Churi is in the works

Ayacucho have made the call to Alianza Lima. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

José Ataupillco knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and José Ataupillco trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

20 Edition

The Ayacucho Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Diego Virrueta out for 90 days

90 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ayacucho lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Ayacucho turn down Deportivo Municipal for José Ataupillco

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Ayacucho rebuffed over Alan Cantero

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Alianza Lima have kept their man, and Ayacucho go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A falling-out at Ayacucho

Leonardo Terán and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Gastón González 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Carlos Jiménez is in the works

Ayacucho have made the call to Sport Huancayo. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

Ayacucho try to borrow Jefferson Churi

Alianza Lima have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Ayacucho ask about Vasco Espejo

A loan enquiry to Alianza Lima: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Alonso Tamariz knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ayacucho, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

20 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Cristian Mendoza puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sport Huancayo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Sport Huancayo

Angel Zamudio 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.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Sport Huancayo walk away from Joshua Cantt

$280.0K was the most the club would pay and UTC were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Giovanni González

Sport Huancayo asked and River Plate said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Ayacucho watching Carlos Jiménez

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Sport Huancayo have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words at Sport Huancayo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Giménez 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.

Transfer targets

Sport Huancayo ask about Ivo Kestler

A loan enquiry to Tigre: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Sport Huancayo try to borrow Santiago Sosa Yung

Defensa y Justicia have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

No place for Bautista Biffi in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Sport Huancayo are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

15 Edition

The Sport Huancayo Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Angel Zamudio 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.

Squad

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 dugout

Piero Magallanes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Piero Magallanes is on it.

In brief