Marked for Lucão
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 Aug 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Deportivo Maldonado may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Santiago Ramírez 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.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Lucão out for 30 days
The medical room confirms 30 days on the sidelines for Lucão, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Jan 2028
Óscar Morel 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 Deportivo Maldonado this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lucão and Deportivo Maldonado agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Manuel Ramos, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Jan 2028
Christian Tabó 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
Óscar Morel has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Deportivo Maldonado know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Lucão signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lucão and Deportivo Maldonado agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Jan 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.
Market3 Jan 2028
Óscar Morel is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market3 Jan 2028
Deportivo Maldonado opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Santiago Cartagena stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Jan 2028
The bid was some way short and Racing did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Tempers go at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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
“The easiest signature of my career.” Iván Manzur and Racing agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ameh Godwin, and the manager let it.
Squad3 Jan 2028
65 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
Racing release $2.0M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.