From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad3 Feb 2031
The manager makes an example of Axel Isla
“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.
Market3 Feb 2031
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Juventud know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad3 Feb 2031
Santino Bruschi asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Axel Isla The manager makes an example of Axel Isla
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Boardroom16 Dec 2030
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Squad16 Dec 2030
Axel Isla gets it from the manager“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.
Market16 Dec 2030
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Gastón Pereiro may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match31 Aug 2030
3-0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market2 Sep 2030
“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.
Squad2 Sep 2030
“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.
Squad2 Sep 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mateo Izaguirre and Juventud agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad2 Sep 2030
6 goals and a season average of 7.34. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad2 Sep 2030
“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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad1 Jul 2030
“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.
Squad1 Jul 2030
Alejo Cruz is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.42 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match29 Jun 2030
Boston River made Juventud work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad1 Jul 2030
The manager makes an example of Axel Isla
“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.
Squad1 Jul 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ezequiel Irute commits to Juventud for another 4 years.
Market1 Jul 2030
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. David Livingston may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Jun 2030
“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.
Squad24 Jun 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Axel Isla Axel Isla says Juventud went back on their word
Squad24 Jun 2030
8 goals and a season average of 7.37. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad24 Jun 2030
“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.
Market24 Jun 2030
The name of Gonzalo Gómez keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Juventud say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 May 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Axel Prado and Juventud agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad13 May 2030
Axel Isla gets it from the manager“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.
Squad13 May 2030
David Morosini asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match23 Feb 2030
8 matches without a win for Juventud
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Juventud are no longer polite ones.
Squad25 Feb 2030
The manager makes an example of Axel Isla
“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.
Match23 Feb 2030
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Liverpool Montevideo will be the happier side with the point.
Axel Isla The manager makes an example of Axel Isla
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Uneasy
Market14 Jan 2030
“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.
Squad14 Jan 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Iván González and Juventud agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad14 Jan 2030
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market17 Dec 2029
$3.3M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Boardroom17 Dec 2029
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Match11 Dec 2029
No end in sight to Juventud 's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Juventud has to find a result from somewhere.
Market17 Dec 2029
“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.
Squad17 Dec 2029
Alejo Cruz is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.41 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad17 Dec 2029
Axel Isla gets it from the manager“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match26 Nov 2029
Juventud up to position 254 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad26 Nov 2029
Axel Isla : 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.
Squad26 Nov 2029
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Axel Isla Axel Isla: that is not what I was promised
Squad26 Nov 2029
“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.
Squad26 Nov 2029
Santino Bruschi asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market26 Nov 2029
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Agustín Pérez may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
Boardroom
The Juventud production line keeps running
Boardroom
The Juventud board put their names to it
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Nov 2029
Emanuel Cecchini : 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.
Squad19 Nov 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lucas Quimbo commits to Juventud for another 4 years.
Squad19 Nov 2029
Lucas Quimbo gets it from the manager“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
Squad
Axel Isla asks for a word with the manager
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match3 Sep 2029
Juventud up to position 254 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match1 Sep 2029
Juventud cannot stop winning3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Match1 Sep 2029
Three points for Juventud , 2-0 the final word against Rentistas in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad3 Sep 2029
7 goals and a season average of 7.41. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad3 Sep 2029
The manager makes an example of Axel Isla
“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.
Boardroom3 Sep 2029
Juventud release $2.0M for the managerThe board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Squad3 Sep 2029
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad3 Sep 2029
At 23 years old, Diego Simoes became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Boardroom3 Sep 2029
The Juventud production line keeps running
19 graduates out of an academy now rated 9 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market20 Aug 2029
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.
Match18 Aug 2029
Colon made Juventud work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad20 Aug 2029
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Rodrigo Cabrera , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Jul 2029
Facundo Núñez : 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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
“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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
5 goals and a season average of 7.34. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Agustín Alaniz knocks on the manager's door“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.
Market30 Jul 2029
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Axel Isla arrives at Juventud with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.