Iván González

Goalkeeper - Juventud U20
24 Apr 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Iván González

137 Edition

The Juventud Herald

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Nicolás Ruotola

There were 9 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.

Boardroom

Iván González signs for Rampla Juniors while still at Juventud

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Iván González has agreed terms with Rampla Juniors for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Tempers go at Juventud

David Morosini 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Federico Barrandeguy

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Juventud against Plaza Colonia

0‑2 to Plaza Colonia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Franco Silva left the room before anybody could ask which.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Facundo Pérez

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Facundo 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 Juventud, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

A wage question at Juventud

Geiner Martínez has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

In brief

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The Juventud Herald

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Franco Casuriaga out for 80 days

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

The dugout

Lautaro Vázquez keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Juventud may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Matteo Larrosa is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Juventud is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Juventud

Rodrigo Chagas 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.

Squad

Words at Juventud training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Quintana 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.

Squad

Juventud count the cost of losing Iván González

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout

Matías Núñez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Juventud will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

No place for Lautaro Vázquez in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Lautaro Vázquez has his answer from Juventud; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Mauricio Rodríguez

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Juventud told Mauricio Rodríguez something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief