Peru

English footballers generally don’t leave their own domestic leagues. This is not counting other parts of the United Kingdom of course. While there are exceptions, the place you’d least expect them would be in South America. Peru has had its own. His name was Mark Cook and he was a goalkeeper. Mark Cook was born […]

Friday, June 23rd Universidad San Martin de Porres vs Academia Cantolao Essentially a neutral game due to both teams playing at the Miguel Grau in Callao for their home games. One team is bottom (Cantolao), and the other one is the penultimate team (San Martin). Both will feel they can win, but if I had […]

Union Comercio vs Sport Huancayo Union Comercio have been poorly run this season, having made questionable decisions such as sacking off managers too early and bringing Manco and benching Miguel Carranza to accommodate a spot for him. Sport Huancayo on the other hand have been a poor away team, but there should be an exception […]

Universidad Tecnica Cajamarca and Melgar both finished first in their respective groups. UTC and Melgar both finished with 27 points although the former ended the campaign with a higher goal difference. This means that the first leg will be in Cajamarca and the second will be in Arequipa. La Rojinegra only lost 1 game and […]

Saturday Alianza Atletico vs Union Comercio Both these teams broke their bad runs last weekend with both teams picking up wins. A draw seems most likely to be the result. Alianza Atletico still have a lot of convincing to do and while Union Comercio aren’t much better in that aspect, they have a stronger squad […]

Juan Aurich vs UTC Cajamarca A draw is most likely here. UTC have gotten points away from home but aren’t expert travellers and have also dropped many. Although the motivation in this match is that Cajamarca can confirm finishing 1st in their group taking them to the final. However, they’ve showed some weaknesses away from […]

Ricardo Gareca, who is Peru’s current manager was appointed in March of 2015. At the beginning, he used what was left from Sergio Markarian’s team, who was the previous manager in World Cup qualifying. There were only a few modifications for the Copa America 2015 and the beginning of the qualifiers for the FIFA World […]

Sporting Cristal 4-1 Alianza Atletico Sporting Cristal ran riot on a sunny afternoon at the Alberto Gallardo in Rimac. The score was 4-0 at half time. Ortiz opened the score with a nice shot from right outside the box to give Los Cerveceros the lead in the 5th minute. 10 minutes later, Horacio Calcaterra doubled […]

Sporting Cristal 1-0 Sport Rosario Sporting Cristal beat Sport Rosario 1-0 at the Alberto Gallardo as they were expected to. This win marked the end of a six game winless run in all competitions. The scoreline was narrow and Cristal missed a lot of good chances. Sport Rosario also got forward a few times but […]

The Torneo de Verano is off right now. The league is suspended until the 8th of April due to flooding that’s going on in most parts of the country. 8 games in so far, it would be a good time to keep the discussion going and have the best XI of the tournament so far. […]