Marked for Máximo Lorenzi
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market14 Jun 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 Plaza Colonia can pretend not to have heard.
Match14 Jun 2027
Position 3 and 31 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match12 Jun 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Plaza Colonia did not have in the autumn.
Market14 Jun 2027
The chase for Ayrton Castro ended with $230.0K changing hands and Tacuarembo out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Match12 Jun 2027
Three points for Plaza Colonia, 2‑1 the final word against Oriental in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.54, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Segundo Pachamé 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Market31 May 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 The request is on a desk at Plaza Colonia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 May 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Plaza Colonia did not have in the autumn.
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 Plaza Colonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Plaza Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexander Rosso 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.
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
The afternoon belonged to Pablo García
7.12, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Plaza Colonia had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad31 May 2027
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match29 May 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Rampla Juniors came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market26 Apr 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 Plaza Colonia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match24 Apr 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Pablo García. 1‑0 against Atenas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Marked 8.34 — 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at Plaza Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Segundo Pachamé 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Máximo Lorenzi, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Apr 2027
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Ezequías Redín has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Plaza Colonia 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.
Market26 Apr 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Segundo Pachamé may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Hebert Vergara out for 32 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Plaza Colonia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Lautaro Rinaldi: 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.” Plaza Colonia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match20 Feb 2027
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match20 Feb 2027
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Plaza Colonia can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Máximo Lorenzi 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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Uneasy
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The arithmetic ran out, and everybody could see it coming from a distance. The hard summer starts now, and next season's fixtures will be full of unfamiliar names.
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer from Guidonia Montecelio for Kevin Morgan 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Plaza Colonia heard it as anything else.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Facundo Coello gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Facundo Coello has just signed for Plaza Colonia, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad4 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 Plaza Colonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Plaza Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexander Rosso 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.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Máximo Lorenzi commits to Plaza Colonia for another 3 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Matías Velázquez 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Plaza Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexander Rosso 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
Uneasy
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
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Plaza Colonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Segundo Pachamé 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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Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
$2.0M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $2.0M sale of Nicolás González
He is going to Valerenga, the club has $2.0M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Squad10 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 Plaza Colonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
Boston River left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Plaza Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexander Rosso 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Michael López did the work nobody counts — 6.52
10 combined actions and 6.52. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Pablo García's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.