Marked for Luis Ramos
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Alianza Lima, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Luis Ramos 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 Alianza Lima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer from Sporting Cristal for Federico Girotti 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Luis Ramos 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 Alianza Lima can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
82 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Marco Huamán, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Lucas Besozzi has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Alianza Lima know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Dec 2026
The bid was some way short and Alianza Lima did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
Luis Ramos 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 Alianza Lima can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Dec 2026
114 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market7 Dec 2026
The phone has started ringing about Brady Paz again, and this time the name on the line is Ayacucho. Alianza Lima are listening politely and promising nothing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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
The medical room confirms 23 days on the sidelines for Piero Cari, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
One of those days for Luis Ramos
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.19, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
From our football correspondent
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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Guillermo Viscarra has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Alejandro Duarte 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A mark of 5.67 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The manager comes out for Mateo Antoni
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Mateo Antoni has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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 seen what the next man earns
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luis Ramos commits to Alianza Lima for another 4 years.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Luis Ramos 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 Luis Ramos trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad14 Sep 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Guillermo Viscarra 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
390% of the income goes out in wages at Alianza Lima
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Federico Girotti. Alianza Lima will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Aug 2026
Sport Huancayo go through and Alianza Lima go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.10 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Josué Estrada, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Alianza Lima did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Federico Girotti has come up in conversations Alianza Lima were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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.