Leonel Roldán

Defensive Midfielder - Juventud
14 Mar 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Leonel Roldán

16 Edition

The Juventud Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Martín Boselli out for 97 days

97 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juventud lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Federico Barrandeguy: 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.” Juventud have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Juventud

Fernando Mimbacas 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.

Squad

Patricio Pernicone 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Leonel Roldán

“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 dugout

Fernando Mimbacas has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Juventud 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.

Market

Alejo Cruz linked with a move away

The name of Alejo Cruz keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Juventud say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

David Morosini has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and David Morosini has written the date down.

Market

Still no signature from Facundo Pérez

2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Juventud could get for him.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Juventud Herald

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Martín Boselli

111 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Juventud lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

Leonel Roldán keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Juventud may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Facundo Pérez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Juventud is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Juventud

Martín Cáceres 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.

Squad

Matías Zunino pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

Facundo Pérez 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 dugout

Gastón Pereiro 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Rodrigo Chagas plays

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.

Market

Bruno Larregui linked with a move away

The name of Bruno Larregui keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Juventud say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief