Marked for Lautaro Comas
From our football correspondent
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Squad4 Jan 2027
Lautaro Comas damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Oscar Ruiz out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sportivo Luqueno will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market4 Jan 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Alfredo Aguilar 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The deal that would have taken Alexandro Giménez to 12 de Octubre has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Sportivo Luqueno with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad4 Jan 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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Squad28 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lautaro Comas
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sportivo Luqueno lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Oscar Ruiz breaks a bone — 110 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
Market28 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad28 Dec 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 Sportivo Luqueno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market28 Dec 2026
12 de Octubre pay $230.0K, 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.
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Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lautaro Comas
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sportivo Luqueno lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Oscar Ruiz breaks a bone — 117 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 117 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Market21 Dec 2026
River Plate come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sportivo Luqueno did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lautaro Mendieta has just signed for Sportivo Luqueno, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Giovanni Bogado 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lautaro Comas
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sportivo Luqueno lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Oscar Ruiz breaks a bone — 126 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 126 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
Continental nights are coming to Sportivo Luqueno
Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.
Market14 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market14 Dec 2026
“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.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Joelson Gamarra has agreed terms with General Caballero for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad14 Dec 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 Sportivo Luqueno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Dec 2026
River Plate pay $77.0K, 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.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Derlis Aguilera has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Sportivo Luqueno have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
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Squad7 Dec 2026
Lautaro Comas damages knee ligaments — 46 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 46 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Dec 2026
“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 Sportivo Luqueno, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Alfredo Aguilar 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A move Alejandro Leiva 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. Alejandro Leiva is living that version at Sportivo Luqueno, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Giovanni Bogado 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lautaro Comas
54 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sportivo Luqueno lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Aldo Maiz for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Sportivo Luqueno will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad30 Nov 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 Sportivo Luqueno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Lautaro Comas damages knee ligaments — 62 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 62 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Alfredo Aguilar 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Alan Pereira 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Lautaro Comas damages knee ligaments — 69 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 69 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.
Squad16 Nov 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 Sportivo Luqueno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Sportivo Luqueno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giovanni Bogado 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Lautaro Comas damages knee ligaments — 78 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 78 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Alfredo Aguilar 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ángel Benítez, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Lautaro Comas damages knee ligaments — 85 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 85 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Alexis Villalba wants continental football; whether Sportivo Luqueno can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad2 Nov 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 Sportivo Luqueno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lautaro Comas
93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sportivo Luqueno lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Giovanni Bogado 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Kevin Pereira 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Alfredo Aguilar 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ángel Benítez, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
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Market3 Aug 2026
OFI come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sportivo Luqueno did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
417 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Sportivo Luqueno know what they have.
Market3 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Lautaro Comas wants continental football; whether Sportivo Luqueno can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alfredo Aguilar and Sportivo Luqueno agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 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 Sportivo Luqueno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Sportivo Luqueno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giovanni Bogado 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.