Marked for Ignacio Mujica
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Camilo Viganoni: 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.” Juventud have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market18 Oct 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Juventud, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market18 Oct 2027
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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Juventud
Sebastián Sosa 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.
Market18 Oct 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Diego Arroyo wants continental football; whether Juventud can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at Juventud training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patricio Pernicone 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Juventud are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Loan watch18 Oct 2027
26 appearances at Colon and the goals keep coming. Juventud are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
“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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market6 Sep 2027
Juventud say no — this time
The offer from KAA Gent for Bruno Larregui was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market6 Sep 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Juventud, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market6 Sep 2027
Agustín Pérez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Juventud they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad6 Sep 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 Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
“I watch every Juventud game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Penarol runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market6 Sep 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Juventud has been clear about where Federico Barrandeguy stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout6 Sep 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patricio Pernicone was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Juventud are still strangers to each other
7 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.
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Steady
Market23 Aug 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Juventud have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Match18 Aug 2027
Penarol ended it 2‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match21 Aug 2027
Juventud win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Cerro Largo will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad23 Aug 2027
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market23 Aug 2027
Facundo Pérez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Juventud they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rodrigo Chagas and Juventud agree another 4 years.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Juventud
Rodrigo Chagas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Upbeat
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Juventud
Ignacio Mujica 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.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Juventud, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maximiliano Torena was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Gastón Pereiro 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Fabrizio Correa
“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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Agustín Pérez is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Upbeat
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Juventud may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market19 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Juventud
David Morosini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Agustín Alaniz
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Juventud
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Geiner Martínez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.