Marked for Roberto Techera
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout17 Jul 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.
Market17 Jul 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Durazno is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Durazno have done the hard part with River Plate, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at Durazno
Anthony Aires 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.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. La Luz have kept their man, and Durazno go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Guillermo Bassi 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 dugout17 Jul 2028
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 dugout17 Jul 2028
“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 dugout17 Jul 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Roberto Techera trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
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Steady
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market19 Jun 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 The request is on a desk at Durazno, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Montevideo City Torque keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Words exchanged at Durazno
Lucas Machado 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.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
The offer went to Montevideo City Torque this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Tomás Cantera 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 dugout19 Jun 2028
“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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Durazno know it.
The dugout19 Jun 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Axel Montaña'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
Steady
Market17 Apr 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Durazno is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market17 Apr 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Durazno can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Lucas Machado 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.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
Belts tighten at Durazno
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.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Tomás Cantera 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 dugout17 Apr 2028
“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.
Match15 Apr 2028
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Looking ahead17 Apr 2028
The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.
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Upbeat
Player ratings3 Apr 2028
A brace, and Facundo da Costa takes the afternoon — 8.80
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Facundo da Costa provided it, and the 8.80 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match3 Apr 2028
Durazno up to position 3
12 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad3 Apr 2028
A falling-out at Durazno
Anthony Aires and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match1 Apr 2028
Durazno keep winning on the road
4 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 ratings3 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match1 Apr 2028
Huracan Buceo made Durazno work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad3 Apr 2028
A row about effort at Durazno
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Roberto Techera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces3 Apr 2028
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Axel Montaña has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Boardroom3 Apr 2028
96% of the income goes out in wages at Durazno
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
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Steady
Squad27 Mar 2028
Axel Montaña in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Durazno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Words at Durazno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roberto Techera 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 dugout27 Mar 2028
The manager makes an example of Tomás Cantera
“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 dugout27 Mar 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Nahuel Andrada'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.
Looking ahead27 Mar 2028
Huracan Buceo next, and one man in the Durazno dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market27 Mar 2028
No place for Dante Jadli in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Dante Jadli has his answer from Durazno; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
Omar Ruiz gets picked when it counts
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 Omar Ruiz is on it.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
Agustín Pérez 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 Durazno, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market27 Mar 2028
7 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Durazno could get for him.
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Upbeat
The dugout13 Mar 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Durazno may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match11 Mar 2028
Nobody wants to play Durazno right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad13 Mar 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 Durazno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match11 Mar 2028
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Durazno. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
“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.
Match11 Mar 2028
Deutscher FK made Durazno work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market13 Mar 2028
No place for David Santo in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” David Santo has his answer from Durazno; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings13 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad13 Mar 2028
A row about effort at Durazno
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Guillermo Bassi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Feb 2028
3‑0, and Federico Ibáñez took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Durazno tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
The dugout21 Feb 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.
Market21 Feb 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Durazno is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Durazno
Axel Montaña and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom21 Feb 2028
Belts tighten at Durazno
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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Durazno
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Guillermo Bassi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces21 Feb 2028
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match19 Feb 2028
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ezequiel Cortés, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 Jan 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match31 Jan 2028
Durazno up to position 3
27 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Darío Pereira 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Jan 2028
22 days out for Roberto Techera after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Durazno will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market24 Jan 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan Pablo Doncel will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Durazno the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Agustín Pérez 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 Jan 2028
Words at Durazno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Ferreira 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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Too much change too quickly at Durazno
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.
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
Belts tighten at Durazno
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad17 Jan 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
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 Durazno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Matías Ferreira 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 Jan 2028
36 days out for Roberto Techera after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Durazno will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market10 Jan 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 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 Durazno, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Durazno
Agustín Pérez 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
Guillermo Bassi 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 dugout10 Jan 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Durazno, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match3 Jan 2028
Durazno up to position 3
27 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market3 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.
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 Durazno have had the benefit of it.
Market3 Jan 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Durazno have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Axel Montaña 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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Guillermo Bassi 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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Durazno will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets3 Jan 2028
Defensor Sporting 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.
Market3 Jan 2028
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Facundo da Costa arrives from Cerro Largo with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Aug 2027
Agustín Pérez 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at Durazno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Ferreira 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 dugout30 Aug 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Aug 2027
Mauro Bonilla damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Durazno
Agustín Pérez 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Durazno
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lorenzo Couture was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Aug 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
118% of the income goes out in wages at Durazno
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Squad23 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 Durazno will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mauro Bonilla
22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Durazno lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match16 Aug 2027
Durazno up to position 3
27 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Durazno
Agustín Pérez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Durazno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillermo Bassi 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 dugout16 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mathías Callero, and the manager let it.
Market16 Aug 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Aug 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 Durazno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Durazno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Ferreira 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 dugout9 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Matías Ferreira
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Jul 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 28 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.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
Omar Ruiz keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Durazno may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Danubio is saying, and nobody at Durazno is enjoying the guessing.
Squad12 Jul 2027
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad12 Jul 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 Durazno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Lorenzo Couture 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 dugout12 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of David Santo
“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.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
A loan enquiry to Racing: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
A loan enquiry to Miramar Misiones: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Steady
Market14 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The medical room confirms 46 days on the sidelines for Roberto Techera, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Wanderers keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad14 Jun 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 Durazno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
$18.0K on the table at Defensor Sporting. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Durazno
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Guillermo Bassi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets14 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Mathías Callero has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Durazno.
The dugout14 Jun 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout31 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Durazno may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad31 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at Durazno
Agustín Pérez 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.
Match29 May 2027
Whatever happens, Durazno do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Durazno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorenzo Couture 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.
Boardroom31 May 2027
Wages eat 160% of everything Durazno earn
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 dugout31 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Pablo Doncel, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 May 2027
The team sheet said everything about Roberto Techera
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Roberto Techera.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 May 2027
“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.
Match24 May 2027
Durazno are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 24 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 May 2027
A falling-out at Durazno
Agustín Pérez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 May 2027
Guillermo Bassi 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 dugout24 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roberto Techera, and the manager let it.
The dugout24 May 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Durazno pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.29 on the card, and the Durazno support went home talking about one name.
The dugout24 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Durazno
Agustín Pérez 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Durazno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillermo Bassi 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 dugout12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martín Molina, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Durazno are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Durazno. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 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 Durazno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Lorenzo Couture 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Mathías Callero out for 55 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Durazno will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Roberto Techera for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Durazno will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Agustín Pérez 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Durazno training over how hard people work
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Omar Ruiz
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Market
Experience through the door at Durazno
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The dugout
Sebastián D'Angelo has been promised minutes