Marked for Emanuel Cecchini
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match5 Feb 2029
Juventud up to position 2
54 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
This is not rotation. Rodrigo Rodríguez has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets5 Feb 2029
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Rodrigo Chagas 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 targets5 Feb 2029
Juventud 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Juventud can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad5 Feb 2029
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
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 Bruno Larregui is on it.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match12 Dec 2028
A European night to forget for Juventud
0‑3. Colo-Colo play this football every year and it showed in every part of the pitch. The lesson is expensive and, for a club at this stage, probably necessary.
Squad18 Dec 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Guirin
61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Juventud lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market18 Dec 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Juventud can pretend not to have heard.
Market18 Dec 2028
Penarol pay $2.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
This is not rotation. Ramiro Peralta has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets18 Dec 2028
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at River Plate is saying, and nobody at Juventud is enjoying the guessing.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Words exchanged at Juventud
Rodrigo Chagas 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.
Squad18 Dec 2028
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
“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.
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Upbeat
Match3 Oct 2028
A statement in Europe from Juventud
4‑1 against Colo-Colo, and a performance that will change how the rest of the competition talks about this club. Reputations in continental football are built in single evenings and this was one.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Emmanuel Mas breaks a bone — 79 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 79 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Oct 2028
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
The dugout9 Oct 2028
This is not rotation. Geiner Martínez has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Words exchanged at Juventud
José Luis Ramos 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 ratings9 Oct 2028
Ninety minutes of José Luis Ramos at his very best
Marked 9.34. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Juventud.
Loan watch9 Oct 2028
20 appearances at Santa Cruz and the goals keep coming. Juventud are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Rodríguez 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 dugout9 Oct 2028
The manager makes an example of Geiner Martínez
“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.
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Triumph
Squad4 Sep 2028
A fracture rules Emmanuel Mas out for 118 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Juventud will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match2 Sep 2028
Still nobody has beaten Juventud
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The dugout4 Sep 2028
This is not rotation. David Morosini has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Squad4 Sep 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match2 Sep 2028
Juventud are at home on the road
4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
The dugout4 Sep 2028
“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.
Match2 Sep 2028
A 1‑0 win over Wanderers, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Rodrigo Rodríguez 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.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Ninety minutes of Ignacio Lago at his very best
Marked 8.07. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Juventud.
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Triumph
Squad28 Aug 2028
Emmanuel Mas breaks a bone — 125 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 125 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match26 Aug 2028
Whatever happens, Juventud do not lose
10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Juventud may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
This is not rotation. Ramiro Peralta has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Squad28 Aug 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fabrizio Correa and Juventud agree another 4 years.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Rodrigo Chagas 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.
Squad28 Aug 2028
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
Juan Yangali 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings22 May 2028
Two goals and a mark of 8.95 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market22 May 2028
“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.
Market22 May 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Juventud they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad22 May 2028
A falling-out at Juventud
Rodrigo Chagas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 May 2028
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Mimbacas 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.
Match20 May 2028
Wanderers made Juventud work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Boardroom22 May 2028
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
The dugout22 May 2028
This is not rotation. Geiner Martínez has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
The dugout22 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emanuel Cecchini, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Match17 Apr 2028
Juventud up to position 2
14 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market17 Apr 2028
“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.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
This is not rotation. David Morosini has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Words exchanged at Juventud
Vinicinho 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.
Match15 Apr 2028
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Juventud did not have in the autumn.
Squad17 Apr 2028
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fernando Mimbacas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
A mark of 7.24, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
“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 dugout17 Apr 2028
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 Emanuel Cecchini is on it.
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Upbeat
Match15 Mar 2028
Juventud through in the cup
A 3‑0 win over Los Halcones, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
This is not rotation. David Morosini has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Squad20 Mar 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market20 Mar 2028
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Juventud can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Fernando Mimbacas 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 terraces20 Mar 2028
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Bruno Airaldi has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
“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.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Marked 7.80 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Juventud had the best player on the pitch.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Feb 2028
The match ball belongs to Agustín Rodríguez, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
This is not rotation. David Morosini has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Squad21 Feb 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Feb 2028
Ninety minutes of Agustín Rodríguez at his very best
Marked 8.90. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Juventud.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Morosini 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 dugout21 Feb 2028
“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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
10 new faces, and Juventud are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑1, Matias Varela could afford to be generous.
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Steady
Market31 Jan 2028
Juventud say no — this time
The offer from Artigas for Geiner Martínez 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.
Market31 Jan 2028
“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.
Market31 Jan 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Juventud is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
This is not rotation. Geiner Martínez has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Squad31 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Juventud
Rodrigo Chagas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
David Morosini 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 dugout31 Jan 2028
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Juventud told Bruno Larregui something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
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 Federico Barrandeguy is on it.
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Steady
Match24 Jan 2028
First, on 57 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Market24 Jan 2028
“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 Juventud, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
This is not rotation. David Morosini has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at River Plate is saying, and nobody at Juventud is enjoying the guessing.
Squad24 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Jan 2028
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fernando Mimbacas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Atlético Mineiro have kept their man, and Juventud go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fernando Mimbacas, and the manager let it.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Fabrizio Correa'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.
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Crisis
Match29 Nov 2027
57 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Match25 Nov 2027
A European lesson for Juventud
0‑1 against Platense. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
This is not rotation. David Morosini has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Sosa 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 dugout29 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Emmanuel Mas 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 Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Fernando Mimbacas will call it something else in private.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Goalkeepers do not get to make mistakes; they get to make goals. He made one, he knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Fabrizio Correa'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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Juventud may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market11 Oct 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Juventud is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Sosa 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 dugout11 Oct 2027
This is not rotation. Agustín Pérez has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Juventud
Emmanuel Mas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Patricio Pernicone is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
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 Emanuel Cecchini is on it.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
The goals keep arriving from Dunkan Dorrego’s exile
8 goals in 24 games at Oriental — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Juventud updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Market11 Oct 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Alejo Cruz’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Upbeat
Match16 Sep 2027
Juventud do the business in Europe
3‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Juventud came through the finding-out well against Platense.
Match20 Sep 2027
Full time on the season at Juventud
Position 1 on 57 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Both of them Alejo Cruz's — 8.72
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.72, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Juventud — 7.89
1 for Emanuel Cecchini, marked 7.89, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
“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.
Market20 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Agustín Pérez
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Agustín Pérez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Juventud the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Ignacio Sosa 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Barrandeguy, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad13 Sep 2027
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market13 Sep 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Juventud they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ignacio Sosa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
This is not rotation. Agustín Pérez has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Looking ahead13 Sep 2027
The big one: River Plate come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Juventud will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout13 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.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Juventud, and 0 appearances in 7 say he has earned the hearing.
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Upbeat
Match6 Sep 2027
First, on 55 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
This is not rotation. David Morosini has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Juventud is pretending otherwise.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ignacio Sosa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout6 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
Tobías Gómez 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.
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
“I watch every Juventud game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Albion runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Federico Barrandeguy has come out of that comparison in the side, and Juventud have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
Patricio Pernicone is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
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.
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Steady
Market26 Apr 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 Juventud, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match24 Apr 2027
4 matches without a win for Juventud
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Juventud are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Sosa 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 dugout26 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Rodrigo Chagas
“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.
Match24 Apr 2027
A point taken on 90 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Juventud
Emmanuel Mas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
“I watch every Juventud game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Albion runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Match24 Apr 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Defensor Sporting leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Emanuel Cecchini trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.