Marked for Facundo Moreira
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
The knee: Gustavo Alles out for 103 days
103 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Plaza Colonia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Máximo Lorenzi 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 dugout23 Nov 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Miqueas Redín 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 Miqueas Redín is on it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes Facundo Píriz a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Plaza Colonia. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Kevin Morgan knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kevin Morgan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Sep 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Lucas Carrizo 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Facundo Moreira gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Facundo Moreira has just signed for Plaza Colonia, and for once the answer mattered.
Market28 Sep 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Segundo Pachamé was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Sep 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Plaza Colonia are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
Danubio march on in the cup
Racing are out and Danubio go through, 3‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings24 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.60 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Randall Rodríguez 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ivo Costantino wants continental football; whether Danubio can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Match22 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten Danubio
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sebastián Fernández 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 terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Axel Montaña 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.
Match19 Aug 2026
Danubio settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Racing spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Nicolás Azambuja obliged against Atenas. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Danubio.
Market17 Aug 2026
Danubio say no — this time
The offer from HNK Rijeka for Randall Rodríguez 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.10 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
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.
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.18. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.