Marked for Ezequiel Umpiérrez
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
Ezequiel Cortés 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Yhojan Díaz 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anthony Hernández, and the manager let it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
7 new faces, and Deportivo Colonia 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Juan Manuel Martínez Trejo 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Yhojan Díaz 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Omar Ruiz
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Omar Ruiz, and the manager let it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tomás Errecartt and Deportivo Colonia agree another 3 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Edqui Amaro has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Deportivo Colonia will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Deportivo Colonia now.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Juan Manuel Martínez Trejo 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tomás Errecartt arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Tomás Errecartt has, at Deportivo Colonia, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rentistas have kept their man, and Deportivo Colonia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Deportivo Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcos Heredia 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 Dec 2026
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Matías Núñez 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
6 new faces, and Deportivo Colonia 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ezequiel Cortés trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market28 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ezequiel Umpiérrez signs something — a contract at Deportivo Colonia or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Colonia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Yhojan Díaz breaks a bone — 16 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Deportivo Colonia have done the hard part with Racing, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ezequiel Umpiérrez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Time is catching up with Enzo Ruiz
Everybody at Deportivo Colonia saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 38 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
Market14 Dec 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Deportivo Colonia, another week without a signature from Ezequiel Umpiérrez.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Colon: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Colonia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Yhojan Díaz breaks a bone — 23 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 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 Deportivo Colonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. La Luz have kept their man, and Deportivo Colonia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ezequiel Umpiérrez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Ezequiel Viola
“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.
Market7 Dec 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 7.60 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Deportivo Colonia had the best player on the pitch.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Colonia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Yhojan Díaz out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportivo Colonia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Gastón Sánchez 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
213% of the income goes out in wages at Deportivo Colonia
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
5 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
7.30, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Deportivo Colonia had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Kevin Sanchez after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The plan did not have a place for Gastón Sánchez
Nobody at Deportivo Colonia is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Match28 Nov 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Bella Italia came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
43 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Colonia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad23 Nov 2026
39 days out for Yhojan Díaz after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Deportivo Colonia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market23 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportivo Colonia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Darwin Granda 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Deportivo Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ezequiel Umpiérrez 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Pablo Fernández. 1‑0 against Bella Vista, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Matías Malvino
“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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
16 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
50 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Colonia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Yhojan Díaz breaks a bone — 46 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Juan Manuel Martínez Trejo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ezequiel Cortés 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Edqui Amaro 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Deportivo Colonia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
65 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Colonia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 2026
61 days out for Yhojan Díaz after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Deportivo Colonia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A brace, and Pablo Fernández takes the afternoon — 9.05
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Pablo Fernández provided it, and the 9.05 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match31 Oct 2026
7 matches without a win, and then this, against Sud America. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Iván Centurión and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ezequiel Umpiérrez 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match31 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Pablo Fernández. 2‑0 against Sud America, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
72 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Colonia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Yhojan Díaz breaks a bone — 69 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 69 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market26 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Deportivo Colonia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match24 Oct 2026
6 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ezequiel Umpiérrez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match24 Oct 2026
Parque del Plata left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Matías Núñez
“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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
86 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Colonia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Yhojan Díaz breaks a bone — 85 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gastón Sánchez 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ezequiel Umpiérrez 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Edqui Amaro 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Deportivo Colonia told Anthony Hernández something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market12 Oct 2026
Ezequiel Viola arrives at 39 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Luca Gutiérrez 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 Deportivo Colonia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Pablo Fernández’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
101 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Colonia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Yhojan Díaz breaks a bone — 99 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 99 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportivo Colonia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Sep 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 Deportivo Colonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Huracan del Paso, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Enzo Borgarelli, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Deportivo Colonia know which stage they are at.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
No place in the plan for Edqui Amaro
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Federico Hernández damages knee ligaments — 108 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 108 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Yhojan Díaz out for 106 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Deportivo Colonia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Fabio Vázquez goes up and wins it — 7.80
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.80 for the rest of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Juan Manuel Martínez Trejo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ezequiel Umpiérrez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market21 Sep 2026
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Malvino, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match19 Sep 2026
It needed Fabio Vázquez to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Lito, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
116 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Colonia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Deportivo Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ezequiel Umpiérrez 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Potencia left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabriel Ramirez 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Martin Olivera 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edqui Amaro, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
123 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Colonia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Deportivo Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yhojan Díaz 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Enzo Borgarelli named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Enzo Borgarelli is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
131 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Deportivo Colonia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match25 Aug 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Deportivo Colonia scored in the 95th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.65 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.44, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match29 Aug 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Deportivo Colonia have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ezequiel Cortés 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
Words at Deportivo Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ezequiel Umpiérrez 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.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Federico Hernández damages knee ligaments — 138 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 138 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match18 Aug 2026
Out, 0‑1 to Tacuarembo, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Gastón Sánchez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marcos Heredia 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Omar Ruiz’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Deportivo Colonia.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anthony Hernández, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Omar Ruiz
Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market24 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Deportivo Colonia, another week without a signature from Ezequiel Cortés.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gastón Sánchez arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Gastón Sánchez has, at Deportivo Colonia, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Enzo Borgarelli and Deportivo Colonia agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Facundo Guichón 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ezequiel Umpiérrez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sergio Fernandez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Carlos Rodriguez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alejandro Perez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gaston Ramirez 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
7.30, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Deportivo Colonia had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.