The Danubio Chronicle
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ivo Costantino takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Facundo Balatti, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.94
A mark of 7.94 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market3 Aug 2026
Emiliano Velázquez wants European nights
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Iván Rossi stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Iván Rossi and Danubio agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Hugo Silveira 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 Danubio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Ivo Costantino
Marked 9.48 — 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Emiliano Velázquez 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Danubio get the job done against Miramar Misiones
A 3‑1 win over Miramar Misiones, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
Danubio supporters have found a favourite in Facundo Balatti
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Facundo Balatti 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.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Danubio and Hugo Silveira
- Market The clock runs on Iván Rossi's contract
- Market Juan Millán told to find a new club