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Steady
Squad12 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
No sign of nerves from Joaquín Freitas at 20 — 7.84
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Joaquín Freitas did not need any: 7.84, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mateo Peralta commits to Danubio for another 5 years.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Danubio training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emiliano Velázquez 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Danubio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Apr 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Mateo Peralta’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Danubio.
The terraces12 Apr 2027
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“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 Apr 2027
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
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Steady
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Match13 Mar 2027
6 unbeaten for Danubio
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Danubio did not have in the autumn.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Danubio
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emiliano Velázquez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Enrique Femia did the work nobody counts — 7.08
12 combined actions and 7.08. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Match13 Mar 2027
Late, late show earns Danubio a point
Minute 95, against Progreso, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Maximiliano Antúnez 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 dugout15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mateo Rinaldi, and the manager let it.
Match13 Mar 2027
It needed Muhamed Tijani to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Progreso, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Felipe De Arrascaeta chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
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Upbeat
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Iván Rossi commits to Danubio for another 2 years.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad8 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Danubio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastián Rodríguez, and the manager let it.
Match6 Mar 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ivo Costantino. 1‑0 against Wanderers, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Danubio
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivo Costantino was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Ninety minutes of Ivo Costantino at his very best
Marked 8.08. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Danubio.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Mateo Peralta makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Felipe De Arrascaeta kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.62, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market22 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Danubio can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Danubio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match20 Feb 2027
Three points for Danubio, 2‑1 the final word against Oriental in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces22 Feb 2027
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Danubio training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivo Costantino 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 dugout22 Feb 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Felipe De Arrascaeta kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
In brief
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Squad
The formation has left Bernabé Guzmán behind
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Nicolás Brun
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Squad
A Danubio teenager takes the young player award
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Sebastián Fernández takes the afternoon — 9.04
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sebastián Fernández provided it, and the 9.04 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Danubio
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sebastián Fernández was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 3‑1, and it was Sebastián Fernández’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Danubio.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Danubio
Nicolás Azambuja 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodrigo Lugo, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Danubio
11 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Maicol Ferreira is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Danubio
A 2‑0 win over Atenas, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Diego Píriz, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.34
A mark of 8.34 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.26 at 41, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad17 Aug 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 Danubio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Danubio
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emiliano Velázquez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match15 Aug 2026
River Plate made Danubio work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout17 Aug 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Mauro Goicoechea gets picked when it counts
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The dugout
The form table has caught Rodrigo Lugo
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Mateo Peralta at 20 — 8.09
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Mateo Peralta did not need any: 8.09, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Danubio
Sebastián Fernández 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Juventud left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ramon Pereira 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jorge Caceres is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gaston Fernandez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivan Gimenez 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.