The Tacuarembo Courier
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrés Samurio
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tacuarembo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Tacuarembo out
Out, 0‑2 to Progreso, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Ángel Maciel
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market24 Aug 2026
José Duarte is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tacuarembo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Tacuarembo to lose Lucão for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Lucão has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Esteban de Lima
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mauro Estol 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 Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Álvaro San Emeterio 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 Aug 2026
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 Santiago Morales to a room that had heard them before.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Néstor Álvarez
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Ángel Maciel's mistake
- The dugout No place in the plan for Álvaro San Emeterio