Facundo Lemos

Central Defender - Boston River U20
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Facundo Lemos

53 Edition

The Boston River Gazette

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

59 days out for Juan Acosta after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Boston River will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

No mercy from Boston River

Cerro Largo will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Boston River were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad

Yair González is carrying Boston River

19 goals and a season average of 7.62. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

3 goals for Yair González

The match ball belongs to Yair González, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

The dugout

Facundo Lemos: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Boston River have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Boston River turn down Deportivo Maldonado for Andrés Romero

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Facundo Muñoa is on his way

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

Match

Nobody wants to play Boston River right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Juan Acosta 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 Boston River this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

Back issues
29 Edition

The Boston River Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Boston River

11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A falling-out at Boston River

Juan Acosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

2 academy graduates step up at Boston River

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

Words at Boston River training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leandro Suhr 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.

Market

One of our own: Sebastian Perez joins the Boston River first team

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

Market

Thiago Caceres steps up from the Boston River academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thiago Caceres 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Boston River against Defensor Sporting

0‑1 to Defensor Sporting, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Leandro Suhr runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom

Boston River are making the ground bigger

Work is signed off on a capacity of 226. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.

In brief

25 Edition

The Boston River Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

34 days out for Yair González after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Boston River will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

A falling-out at Boston River

Juan Acosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Leo Suárez 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 dugout

Jairo O'Neill gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Bruno Antúnez asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Franco Pérez 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 Franco Pérez is on it.

In brief