Marked for Reverson
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.05 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market19 Jun 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
“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.
Market19 Jun 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad19 Jun 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 Olimpia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market19 Jun 2028
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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Iván Leguizamón 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alejandro Maciel, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Steady
Match12 Feb 2028
Olimpia throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Sportivo Trinidense the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Olimpia will enjoy reviewing.
Market14 Feb 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ricardo Benítez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Olimpia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Derlis Gonzalez 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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Braian Romero 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
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.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad14 Feb 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexis Cantero, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Too much change too quickly at Olimpia
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Match12 Feb 2028
A 2‑2 draw with Sportivo Trinidense leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Jan 2028
Junior Barreto damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 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.
Squad17 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 Olimpia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Jan 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Olimpia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
In brief
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Squad
Aníbal Chalá falls out with a teammate over standards
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Squad
11 new faces, and Olimpia are still learning each other
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Market
The shop window has Betão in it
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Market
The Reverson question follows Olimpia around
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Steady
Squad20 Dec 2027
Junior Barreto 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.
Market20 Dec 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Gastón Olveira 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
Words at Olimpia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Richard Sánchez 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.
Market20 Dec 2027
Add another name to the list: General Diaz have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Juan Ángel Vera. The answer from Olimpia has not changed — yet.
Market20 Dec 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Franco Alfonso wants continental football; whether Olimpia can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Loan watch20 Dec 2027
“I did not go to Danubio to sit and watch. I want to come back to Olimpia and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 23 matches say the rest.
Market20 Dec 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Olimpia will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Loan watch20 Dec 2027
21 appearances at Sportivo Trinidense and the goals keep coming. Olimpia are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad6 Dec 2027
Junior Barreto damages knee ligaments — 77 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 77 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.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Gastón Olveira 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.
Market6 Dec 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Olimpia have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Words at Olimpia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Richard Sánchez 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.
Squad6 Dec 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Sebastián Quintana for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Olimpia will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market19 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Olimpia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Olimpia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market19 Jul 2027
Olimpia say no — this time
The offer from River Plate for Erik López 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Gastón Olveira 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 Jul 2027
Words at Olimpia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Richard Sánchez 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.
Loan watch19 Jul 2027
“I watch every Olimpia game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Defensa y Justicia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Upbeat
Market7 Dec 2026
Olimpia say no — this time
The offer from Guarani for Sebastián Ferreira 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.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Augusto Melgarejo has agreed terms with Sportivo Trinidense for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Olimpia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 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 Olimpia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Olimpia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Morales 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.