Marked for Emanuel Cecchini
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Triumph
Match17 May 2028
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Franco Risso obliged against River Plate. 2‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Juventud.
Player ratings22 May 2028
Defensive actions: 33. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match20 May 2028
Juventud make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Juventud have 4 straight wins of it.
Player ratings22 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 May 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.
Match20 May 2028
Three points for Juventud, 3‑2 the final word against La Luz in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings22 May 2028
Marked 9.35 — 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 ratings22 May 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.20, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad22 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Andrés Mosquera
“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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad20 Dec 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ramiro Peralta commits to Juventud for another 4 years.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Sebastián Sosa 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
The medical room confirms 23 days on the sidelines for Emanuel Cecchini, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Loan watch20 Dec 2027
“I did not go to Atenas to sit and watch. I want to come back to Juventud and fight for my place.” 8 appearances in 28 matches say the rest.
Squad20 Dec 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.
Market20 Dec 2027
At 37, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
Market20 Dec 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mateo Izaguirre’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Loan watch20 Dec 2027
26 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market20 Dec 2027
Juventud have made Martín Boselli available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Upbeat
Squad15 Nov 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
60 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad15 Nov 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.
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Steady
Market1 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad1 Nov 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.
Squad1 Nov 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.
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Upbeat
Squad18 Oct 2027
Agustín Alaniz: 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.
Squad18 Oct 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
The medical room confirms 92 days on the sidelines for Emanuel Cecchini, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Upbeat
Match13 Sep 2027
Juventud refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 58 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Emanuel Cecchini: 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Sebastián Sosa 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.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Jun 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match5 Jun 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Juventud did not have in the autumn.
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
81 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Marcelo Pérez 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 ratings7 Jun 2027
Marked 8.56 — 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Facundo Pérez has his answer from Juventud; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad7 Jun 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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Upbeat
Match29 May 2027
Still nobody has beaten Juventud
The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Alejo Cruz runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 May 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.
Player ratings31 May 2027
A mark of 7.89, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad31 May 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.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Match29 May 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Wanderers defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Defensive actions: 12. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Loan watch31 May 2027
The goals keep arriving from Matteo Larrosa’s exile
5 goals in 14 games at Artigas — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Juventud updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Upbeat
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Defensive actions: 27, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match17 Apr 2027
Nobody wants to play Juventud right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Marcelo Pérez 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Enzo Ribeiro commits to Juventud for another 4 years.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.75, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Steady
Squad5 Apr 2027
Sebastián Sosa 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Juventud did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
A performance of 9.23 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
A performance of 8.43 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad5 Apr 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“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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Upbeat
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Feb 2027
There were 6 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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Sebastián Sosa 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sebastián Guerrero. 1‑0 against Penarol, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad18 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“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.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 54 days on the sidelines for Fernando Mimbacas, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“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.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Juventud may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 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.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
“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 Oct 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
209% of the income goes out in wages at Juventud
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.
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Steady
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 35. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match19 Aug 2026
Fenix ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Point won or two lost for Juventud?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Plaza Colonia? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Juventud
A 4‑0 win over Rampla Juniors, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Alejo Cruz
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 40 days on the sidelines for Martín Cáceres, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad17 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.93 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 9.71 — 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Cerro Largo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Pérez, and the manager let it.