Marked for Mathías Suárez
From our football correspondent
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Squad21 Dec 2026
Juan Patiño and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Franco Ortellado was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Sol de America asked and Universitario said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Dec 2026
8 new faces, and Sol de America are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
San Luis have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Wanderers: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Campisi
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sportivo Luqueno lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Martín Pomes 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Blas Escobar has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sportivo Luqueno they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Sportivo Luqueno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Morales 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Alexis Cantero 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Alexis Villalba
“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.
Market21 Dec 2026
The name of Fernando Bobadilla has come up in conversations Sportivo Luqueno were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market21 Dec 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Alexis Villalba may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Santiago Ocampos has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Sportivo Luqueno 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 17 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Juan Patiño and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Sol de America training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Verdún 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 dugout23 Nov 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
6 new faces, and Sol de America are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
74 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sportivo Luqueno lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sportivo Luqueno is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Walter González 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Sportivo Luqueno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Morales 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Derlis Almiron 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Axel Balbuena has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Sportivo Luqueno 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Blas Valenzuela 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Juan Patiño 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Sol de America are still strangers to each other
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Juan Patiño and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Faustino Piotti is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Sol de America training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franco Ortellado 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.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
Olimpia will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Fredy Colmán has pre-agreed a move to Sol de America, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Sol de America
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Mathías Suárez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Sol de America 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Juan Patiño and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Matías Verdún 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Sol de America are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.