5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Uruguay Montevideo has to find a result from somewhere.
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Uruguay Montevideo has to find a result from somewhere.
At 35, Maximiliano Viera has come through every age group this club has, and now watches a borrowed player of much the same level start every week. An academy notices these things, and so do the parents in the stand.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Uruguay Montevideo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
A 1-0 win over Deportivo Maldonado, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Andrés Samurio knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Every debut is a small story about the future: Emiliano del Pino, 20 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Uruguay Montevideo can pretend not to have heard.
The deal that would have taken Fausto Rivero to Oriental has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Uruguay Montevideo with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
He is 19, and nobody at Uruguay Montevideo signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Franco Velázquez is 19, and Uruguay Montevideo 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.
The captaincy has been taken off Sebastián Camacho. Uruguay Montevideo will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.