Mateo Ureta

Defensive Midfielder - Fenix
3 Jun 2028
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Marked for Mateo Ureta

77 Edition

The Fenix Herald

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 Jan 2028

A fracture rules Sebastián de Marco out for 92 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fenix will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Bryan Olivera 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 Fenix this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Alex Silva 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.

In brief

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56 Edition

The Fenix Herald

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad23 Aug 2027

Nahuel Suárez keeps Fenix in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Bryan Olivera 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 Fenix this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Words at Fenix training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nahuel Suárez 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.

In brief

29 Edition

The Fenix Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad15 Feb 2027

A one-man rearguard from Nahuel Suárez

There were 10 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.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Bryan Olivera 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 Fenix this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom15 Feb 2027

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Fenix

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Words at Fenix training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Esteban González 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.

Boardroom15 Feb 2027

Fenix beat the market to Mateo Ureta from Penarol

Penarol will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Mateo Ureta has pre-agreed a move to Fenix, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad15 Feb 2027

The manager makes an example of Guillermo Pereira

“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.

Market15 Feb 2027

One of our own: Santiago Mendez joins the Fenix first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Santiago Mendez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market15 Feb 2027

Santiago Bentancur steps up from the Fenix academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Santiago Bentancur has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market15 Feb 2027

One of our own: Fernando Nunez joins the Fenix first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fernando Nunez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

29 Edition

The Penarol Chronicle

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad15 Feb 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Eric Remedi

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

Squad15 Feb 2027

Matías Arezo breaks a bone — 15 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom15 Feb 2027

Penarol to lose Mateo Ureta for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Mateo Ureta 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.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Abel Hernández 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 Penarol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market15 Feb 2027

Penarol may not be able to give Franco Escobar what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Franco Escobar wants continental football; whether Penarol can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Boardroom15 Feb 2027

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Penarol

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Player ratings15 Feb 2027

Facundo Batista runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market15 Feb 2027

Penarol promote Jose Ugarte from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jose Ugarte 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.

Market15 Feb 2027

Penarol promote Juan Viera from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Juan Viera 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.

In brief