Benjamín Pérez

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629 Edition

The Penarol Chronicle

16 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Aug 2038

Lorenzo Couture breaks a bone — 122 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 122 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad16 Aug 2038

A one-man rearguard from Diego Mendez

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market16 Aug 2038

Benjamín Pérez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Penarol is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad16 Aug 2038

Tempers go at Penarol

Martín Fernández 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 ratings16 Aug 2038

One of those days for Maicol Rodas

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.88, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings16 Aug 2038

A masterclass from Benjamín Rodríguez

Marked 8.65 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad16 Aug 2038

Words at Penarol training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Vera 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 ratings16 Aug 2038

A masterclass from Eduardo Teixeira

Marked 8.18 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings16 Aug 2038

Nobody could get near Bruno Perez

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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627 Edition

The Penarol Chronicle

2 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad2 Aug 2038

Lorenzo Couture breaks a bone — 138 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 138 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match28 Jul 2038

Cup progress for Penarol

A 3‑1 win over Danubio, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match31 Jul 2038

A 2-goal lead gone for Penarol

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Juventud kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Penarol will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Match28 Jul 2038

Tobías Berón wins it after the whistle should have gone

113 minutes played. Tobías Berón found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Danubio went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Squad2 Aug 2038

Diego Mendez keeps Penarol in it on his own

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.

Player ratings2 Aug 2038

Martin Garcia, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.76

A mark of 8.76 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings2 Aug 2038

Age has not caught Martín Fernández yet — 7.94

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.94 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad2 Aug 2038

Defences have started doubling up on Eduardo Teixeira

12 goals and a season average of 7.56 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Market2 Aug 2038

Benjamín Crivaro is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Penarol is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

In brief

548 Edition

The Penarol Chronicle

26 Jan 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad26 Jan 2037

A fracture rules Martin Ramirez out for 74 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Penarol will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market26 Jan 2037

Penarol may not be able to give Andrés Madruga what he wants

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

Squad26 Jan 2037

Words at Penarol training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Vera 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.

In brief