Marked for Anthony Hernández
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 Jan 2028
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Leonardo Rolón reports back to Deportivo Colonia with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market10 Jan 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Facundo Pereira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Jan 2028
5 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Deportivo Colonia know which stage they are at.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Agustín Rodríguez, and the manager let it.
Match10 Jan 2028
Position 4, 27 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
Pablo Gonzalez has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Deportivo Colonia can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Tiago Romero gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Tiago Romero has just signed for Deportivo Colonia, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad3 Jan 2028
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Deportivo Colonia have had the benefit of it.
Market3 Jan 2028
“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 Deportivo Colonia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Facundo Pereira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Deportivo Colonia now.
Market3 Jan 2028
Cerro Largo are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Deportivo Colonia will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Anthony Hernández's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market6 Dec 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 Deportivo Colonia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Facundo Pereira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom6 Dec 2027
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
Transfer targets6 Dec 2027
Deportivo Colonia asked and Rentistas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad6 Dec 2027
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Words at Deportivo Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enrique Etcheverry 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.
Transfer targets6 Dec 2027
Cerro have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
Anthony Hernández is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Agustín Segundo is on it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom29 Nov 2027
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Leonardo Rolón 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.
Boardroom29 Nov 2027
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Matías Silvero is on it.
Market29 Nov 2027
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Augusto Subirats is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
Squad29 Nov 2027
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Deportivo Colonia know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Nov 2027
Leonardo Rolón and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Deportivo Colonia now.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Santiago Rodríguez, and the manager let it.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
Agustín Segundo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportivo 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.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
Fabricio Sena knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Deportivo Colonia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market8 Nov 2027
Adrián Colombino arrives at 34 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Match8 Nov 2027
Position 4, 27 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Oct 2027
Leonardo Rolón and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom11 Oct 2027
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Anthony Hernández's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Agustín Segundo is on it.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mauricio Loffreda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market11 Oct 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ignacio Gularte has his answer from Deportivo Colonia; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Match11 Oct 2027
Position 4, 27 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Federico Chaparro trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 Sep 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 Deportivo Colonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Lucas Urán gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Enrique Etcheverry 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.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Anthony Hernández is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Agustín Segundo is on it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Aug 2027
Leonardo Rolón and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Enrique Etcheverry was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Felipe Villalba, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Anthony Hernández's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Deportivo Colonia will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Deportivo Colonia now.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Víctor Lanosa knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Deportivo Colonia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Market19 Jul 2027
Víctor Lanosa hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportivo Colonia can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
The deal with Colon is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Leonardo Rolón and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Deportivo Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Víctor Lanosa 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout19 Jul 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.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Anthony Hernández's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 Jun 2027
Víctor Lanosa hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportivo Colonia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Facundo Pereira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words at Deportivo Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enrique Etcheverry 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Santiago Cantos
“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.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Anthony Hernández is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Deportivo Colonia will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 May 2027
Fabio Vázquez breaks a bone — 54 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 54 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Martín Molina did the work nobody counts — 6.98
16 combined actions and 6.98. 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Facundo Pereira and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad3 May 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lucas Urán and Deportivo Colonia agree another 3 years.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Deportivo Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enrique Etcheverry 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.
The dugout3 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.
Looking ahead3 May 2027
Uruguay Montevideo next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout3 May 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Deportivo Colonia told Anthony Hernández something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Fabio Vázquez out for 82 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportivo Colonia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Víctor Lanosa and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Deportivo Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Rodríguez 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
0‑2 to Huracan del Paso, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“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.
Looking ahead5 Apr 2027
Sud America next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Match3 Apr 2027
After 4 games, Deportivo Colonia finally taste it again
The first defeat in 4 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Huracan del Paso; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Pablo Gonzalez to a room that had heard them before.
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Upbeat
Squad29 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Fabio Vázquez out for 89 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportivo Colonia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Víctor Lanosa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Enrique Etcheverry 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.
The dugout29 Mar 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.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Agustín Segundo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportivo 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Nahuel Andrada’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Deportivo Colonia needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market29 Mar 2027
4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Deportivo Colonia money.
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Upbeat
Market1 Mar 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 Deportivo Colonia, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Víctor Lanosa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 14 actions, 7.35, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Enrique Etcheverry 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.
The dugout1 Mar 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 ratings1 Mar 2027
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 11 actions, 6.50, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Match27 Feb 2027
The goal that put Uruguay Montevideo ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Deportivo Colonia equalised, 1 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Match27 Feb 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Uruguay Montevideo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
Víctor Lanosa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Deportivo Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Rodríguez 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anthony Hernández, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Colonia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Facundo Pereira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mauro Bonilla, and the manager let it.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Matías Silvero is on it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Federico Chaparro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Enrique Etcheverry damages knee ligaments — 47 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 47 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.
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 Deportivo Colonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Christian García arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Christian García has, at Deportivo Colonia, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Agustín Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Defensor Sporting: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Matías Silvero is on it.
Market28 Dec 2026
A season-long audition: Defensor Sporting still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Deportivo Colonia's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
54 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Colonia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market21 Dec 2026
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Deportivo Colonia have done the hard part with Defensor Sporting, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Rentistas is saying, and nobody at Deportivo Colonia is enjoying the guessing.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Víctor Lanosa 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.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
Deportivo Colonia spend $110.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $110.0K for Federico Chaparro, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Deportivo Colonia asked and Rentistas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Agustín Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Facundo Pereira and Deportivo Colonia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
82 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Colonia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Martín Molina breaks a bone — 22 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Víctor Lanosa 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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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
96 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Colonia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Santiago Rodríguez for 18 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Deportivo Colonia will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Víctor Lanosa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Fabio Vázquez
71 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Colonia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Víctor Lanosa 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Enrique Etcheverry was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market26 Oct 2026
A stepping stone, not a home, for Víctor Lanosa
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Deportivo Colonia were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anthony Hernández, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Deportivo Colonia know which stage they are at.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Fabio Vázquez
107 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Colonia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Tacuarembo will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Ian López has pre-agreed a move to Deportivo Colonia, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Enrique Etcheverry was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Agustín Rodríguez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportivo 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.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Fabio Vázquez
114 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Colonia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Enrique Etcheverry 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ignacio Velázquez is on it.