From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Oct 2027
52 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Massimo Sandi 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Jeremy Rostaing plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Steady
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
“I did not go to UTC to sit and watch. I want to come back to Sport Huancayo and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 36 matches say the rest.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Marcelo Gaona 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.
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Steady
Squad26 Jul 2027
Franco Caballero: 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
The deal that would have taken Andy Contreras to Ayacucho has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Sport Huancayo with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Market26 Jul 2027
Ayacucho are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Sport Huancayo will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market28 Jun 2027
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.
Match26 Jun 2027
0-2 to Alianza Atletico, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Axel Chávez 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.
Market28 Jun 2027
Aldosivi are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Sport Huancayo will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad28 Jun 2027
One booking too many, and Yorleys Mena sits out. Sport Huancayo lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Ronal Huaccha 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Apr 2027
The captaincy has been taken off Yorleys Mena. Sport Huancayo will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Market5 Apr 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Marcelo Gaona 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.