Overview
- Alianza Lima excluded Sergio Peña, Miguel Trauco and Carlos Zambrano from its CONMEBOL list and reassigned shirt numbers, giving No. 5 to Esteban Pavez and No. 13 to Marco Huamán while Alan Cantero kept No. 11.
- Pavez will travel to Paraguay and is listed among the substitutes, youth players Jiussepi García and Rait Alarcón were registered for the Copa, and the club values Cantero at about €2.5 million as it safeguards his market outlook.
- CONMEBOL rules allow Alianza to modify its preliminary list if it advances from Phase 1, a flexibility the club cited as it opens its Libertadores campaign at 2 de Mayo.
- In Lima, a ‘La 50’ bus driver escaped an attempted shooting in San Juan de Lurigancho, two suspects reported as Colombian nationals were detained, and police increased protection at the company’s paraderos.
- In Argentina, a Santa Fe police subofficer who shot himself outside a Rosario base remains hospitalized with a reserved prognosis as investigators work the case, a man who shot his partner and her son in Dorrego is being sought, and a referees’ vehicle rollover on Ruta 3 left fourth official Emanuel Leguizamón dead, confirmed by the Caleta Olivia hospital.