Marked for Mateo Pisso
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Facundo Silvestre 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Uruguay Montevideo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Olavarría 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Leandro Gelpi
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Uruguay Montevideo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 39, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Silvestre, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 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 Uruguay Montevideo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Mateo Pisso's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Leandro Gelpi damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Uruguay Montevideo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Olavarría 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.
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Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
1‑3 against Defensor Sporting, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
18 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Sebastián Camacho has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Uruguay Montevideo will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Artigas are out and Uruguay Montevideo go through, 4‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.58 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.89 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sebastián Camacho 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 terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 23 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.
Match12 Aug 2026
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Artigas spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Juan Álvarez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.08. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Facundo Silvestre at his very best
Marked 8.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Uruguay Montevideo.
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Steady
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by La Luz, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Uruguay Montevideo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Gianluca López has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad10 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 Uruguay Montevideo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Lusiel Gómez has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Uruguay Montevideo have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Felipe Hernandez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joaquin Viera has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Godoy is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Uruguay Montevideo dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.