Marked for Lautaro Vázquez
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad23 Nov 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 Atenas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Lautaro Vázquez has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A welcome sight on the training pitch: Brian González has come through recovery and is pushing for a place again.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Atenas
Brian González 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Camilo Gomez joins the Atenas first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Camilo Gomez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Felipe De Arrascaeta is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mathias Ramirez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Danilo Lerda 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 Danilo Lerda is on it.
The dugout14 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.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
4‑1, and Brian González took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Atenas tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.45, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Brian González takes the afternoon — 8.78
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Brian González provided it, and the 8.78 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Facundo Briñón and Atenas agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 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 Atenas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Atenas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luis Maldonado 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match1 Aug 2026
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Brian González in the middle of it, and Colon unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Atenas, another week without a signature from Lucas Bassadone.