Camilo Boga

Central Midfielder - Plaza Colonia U20
26 Sep 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Camilo Boga

76 Edition

The Plaza Colonia Chronicle

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Plaza Colonia may not be able to give Nicolás Garayalde what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Nicolás Garayalde wants continental football; whether Plaza Colonia can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Natanael Guzmán signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Natanael Guzmán and Plaza Colonia agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Plaza Colonia

Lucas Carrizo 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.

Squad

Words at Plaza Colonia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Segundo Pachamé 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.

Squad

Home is on Melvin Berkemer's mind

“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; Plaza Colonia are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Market

Plaza Colonia and Camilo Boga are talking past each other

“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.

In brief

Back issues
75 Edition

The Plaza Colonia Chronicle

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Plaza Colonia spell it out for Brian Pellistri

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Brian Pellistri has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Squad

Lucas Carrizo is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Plaza Colonia will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Market

Melvin Berkemer puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Plaza Colonia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Nicolás Garayalde signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nicolás Garayalde commits to Plaza Colonia for another 3 years.

Squad

Natanael Guzmán 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 Plaza Colonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Plaza Colonia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Segundo Pachamé 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

A long bet from Plaza Colonia on Camilo Boga

He is 19, and nobody at Plaza Colonia signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

Plaza Colonia sign Nicolás Fuentes, one for the future

Nicolás Fuentes is 20, and Plaza Colonia have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

Ignacio Pereira returns from a loan that gave him nothing

2 appearances and 0 goals is not a season, it is a year somebody has lost. Whether that is his fault, the borrowing club's or the people who arranged it is the argument the next few weeks will have.

In brief

52 Edition

The Fenix Herald

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Bryan Olivera breaks a bone — 118 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 118 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

6 matches without a win for Fenix

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Fenix are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Braian Vargas gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Braian Vargas has just signed for Fenix, and for once the answer mattered.

Boardroom

Camilo Boga has agreed to leave Fenix for nothing

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Fenix

Leonel Pérez 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.

Match

Nacional take the points off Fenix

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words at Fenix training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nahuel Suárez 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Román Gutiérrez

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.85, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The terraces

Fenix supporters have found a favourite in Román Gutiérrez

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Román Gutiérrez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

52 Edition

The Plaza Colonia Chronicle

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

No mercy from Plaza Colonia

Liverpool Montevideo will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Plaza Colonia were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

A brace, and Lucas Carrizo takes the afternoon — 9.10

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lucas Carrizo provided it, and the 9.10 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Michael López says Plaza Colonia went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Plaza Colonia

Ignacio Pereira 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.

Player ratings

Segundo Pachamé was immovable

21 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.

Boardroom

Plaza Colonia agree a free transfer for Camilo Boga

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

The terraces

Plaza Colonia supporters have found a favourite in Iván Ramírez

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Iván Ramírez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

No hiding place for Pablo García

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pablo García, and the manager let it.

Match

Plaza Colonia settle it inside twenty minutes

2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Liverpool Montevideo spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.

In brief