Marked for Facundo Saravia
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Danubio may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Sebastián Fernández 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.
Squad5 Oct 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.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Sebastián Fernández 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.
Squad14 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Facundo Moreira has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Danubio 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sebastián Fernández 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Maicol Ferreira. 2‑1 against Liverpool Montevideo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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 Danubio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Danubio keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.37 — 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Enrique Femia, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Danubio out
Out, 1‑1 to Central Espanol, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Miguel González: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sebastián Fernández 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.
Squad24 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Tomás Cavanagh
“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.