Marked for Emanuel Cecchini
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market18 Oct 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patricio Pernicone 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 dugout18 Oct 2027
Renzo Rabino 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.
The dugout18 Oct 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.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Agustín Alaniz 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 Juventud, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad5 Jul 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 13 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Emmanuel Mas breaks a bone — 31 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match3 Jul 2027
Juventud throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Boston River the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Juventud will enjoy reviewing.
Match5 Jul 2027
Juventud refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 37 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
A brace, and Alejo Cruz takes the afternoon — 8.68
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Alejo Cruz provided it, and the 8.68 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market5 Jul 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.
The dugout5 Jul 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Alejo Cruz
13 goals and a season average of 7.33 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market5 Jul 2027
Add another name to the list: River Plate have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Facundo Barceló. The answer from Juventud has not changed — yet.
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Steady
Squad7 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Emmanuel Mas out for 60 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.
Match7 Jun 2027
Juventud up to position 2
32 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
A brace, and Agustín Alaniz takes the afternoon — 9.35
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Agustín Alaniz provided it, and the 9.35 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market7 Jun 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match5 Jun 2027
Progreso left with the points after a 3‑5 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Jun 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.
Match5 Jun 2027
Agustín Alaniz among the goals in a wild afternoon
8 goals in one match, Agustín Alaniz on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Juventud and Progreso.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A season average of 7.22 with 14 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Upbeat
Squad3 May 2027
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad3 May 2027
97 days out for Emmanuel Mas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Juventud will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market3 May 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.
The dugout3 May 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.
Squad3 May 2027
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patricio Pernicone was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 May 2027
Words exchanged at Juventud
Emmanuel Mas 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 ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market3 May 2027
Facundo Barceló is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Juventud has been clear about where Facundo Barceló stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Emmanuel Mas out for 104 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
13 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
A performance of 8.62 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market26 Apr 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patricio Pernicone was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“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
Squad22 Feb 2027
19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juventud lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market22 Feb 2027
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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
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.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Alejo Cruz 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Cecchini 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 Feb 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Progreso leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout22 Feb 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 Rodrigo Chagas is on it.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Steady
Squad8 Feb 2027
Fabrizio Correa damages knee ligaments — 33 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 33 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad8 Feb 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A move Leonardo Ortegal would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Leonardo Ortegal is living that version at Juventud, and it tends to show in the first month.
The dugout8 Feb 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Cecchini 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
Renzo Rabino has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Juventud will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market8 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Bruno Larregui’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Emmanuel Mas 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 Juventud, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
Fabrizio Correa damages knee ligaments — 40 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 40 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout1 Feb 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Cecchini 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 dugout1 Feb 2027
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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Fernando Mimbacas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
The goals keep arriving from Agustín Rodríguez’s exile
6 goals in 27 games at Atlas — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Juventud updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The dugout1 Feb 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Juventud than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
47 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juventud lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Juventud may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Juventud
Marcelo Tabárez 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.
The dugout25 Jan 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patricio Pernicone was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Jan 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.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
Fabrizio Correa damages knee ligaments — 54 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 54 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Juventud have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Cecchini 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Andrade, and the manager let it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Bruno Larregui 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.
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Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
Fabrizio Correa damages knee ligaments — 61 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 61 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market11 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 Juventud, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad11 Jan 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 dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Barceló, and the manager let it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Emanuel Cecchini 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Juventud are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Renzo Rabino gets picked when it counts
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 Renzo Rabino is on it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
David Morosini 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Bruno Larregui’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
76 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juventud lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Facundo Pérez: 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.” Juventud have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tigre have kept their man, and Juventud go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Marcelo Tabárez
“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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Cecchini 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
41 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Boca Juniors: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
84 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juventud lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, and a scan that said otherwise. He goes back to Botafogo; Juventud go back to the market; and both will insist there is no story here.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A move Santiago Vargas would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Santiago Vargas is living that version at Juventud, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market21 Dec 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Fernando Mimbacas wants continental football; whether Juventud can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad21 Dec 2026
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 targets21 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“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.
Market21 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bruno Bentancur has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emanuel Cecchini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Fabrizio Correa
98 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Bruno Larregui: 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.” Juventud have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market7 Dec 2026
Juventud say no — this time
The offer from Independiente for Alejo Cruz 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Juventud
Martín Cáceres 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Juventud have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Cecchini 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Facundo Pérez and Juventud agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Juventud has been clear about where Emanuel Cecchini stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Martín Cáceres 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fabrizio Correa, and the manager let it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Cecchini 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Bruno Larregui 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 Bruno Larregui trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
18 appearances at Atlas and the goals keep coming. Juventud are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market30 Nov 2026
The name of Agustín Alaniz keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Juventud say nothing, which says plenty.
Market30 Nov 2026
The shop window has Emmanuel Mas in it
Juventud have let the market know Emmanuel Mas can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Juventud
Martín Cáceres and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Cecchini 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Alejo Cruz linked with a move away
The name of Alejo Cruz keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Juventud say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market16 Nov 2026
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Juventud could get for him.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Nicolás Rossi 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 Juventud that is a harder question to answer.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Franco Risso 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 Juventud, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fabrizio Correa and Juventud agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Juventud
Martín Cáceres 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Cecchini 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 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Agustín Alaniz, and the manager let it.
Market9 Nov 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Nicolás Rossi has his answer from Juventud; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
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 Gastón Pereiro is on it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market19 Oct 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Fernando Mimbacas wants continental football; whether Juventud can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Juventud
Martín Cáceres and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emanuel Cecchini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Federico Barrandeguy trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
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 Geiner Martínez is on it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Juventud
Martín Cáceres 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bruno Valverde is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Cecchini 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
“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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Bruno Larregui 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 Juventud, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Gastón Pereiro has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Juventud will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Market28 Sep 2026
Facundo Pérez has one foot out of the door
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.
Squad28 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 Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Cecchini 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
14 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
Agustín Alaniz 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Fernando Mimbacas’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Gonzalo Gómez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Juventud will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Juventud. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Juventud
Martín Cáceres and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emanuel Cecchini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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 Geiner Martínez is on it.
Market21 Sep 2026
Nicolás Ruotola is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Juventud has been clear about where Nicolás Ruotola stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Geiner Martínez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Damián Ruis has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Juventud will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Market21 Sep 2026
Juventud have let the market know Nicolás Rossi can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Martín Cáceres 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emanuel Cecchini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match5 Sep 2026
Level with 96 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Juventud had all but put away. Wanderers will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.77 on the card, and the Juventud support went home talking about one name.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ramiro Peralta named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Ramiro Peralta is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Match5 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Upbeat
Match26 Aug 2026
Juventud bow out of the cup
Liverpool Montevideo go through and Juventud go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market31 Aug 2026
Facundo Pérez has one foot out of the door
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.
Squad31 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 Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Racing, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emanuel Cecchini 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.87 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Juventud had the best player on the pitch.
Squad31 Aug 2026
14 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.