Marked for Facundo Jimenez
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Matías Malvino out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Huracan Buceo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Federico Ibáñez 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.
Boardroom11 Oct 2027
Wages swallow 141% of the Huracan Buceo income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Market11 Oct 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Jimenez, and the manager let it.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
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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Upbeat
Squad29 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad29 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Huracan Buceo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Huracan Buceo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Ibáñez 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 dugout29 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jorge Trinidad, and the manager let it.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
133% of the income goes out in wages at Huracan Buceo
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Diego de Souza has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Huracan Buceo 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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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
97 days out for Andrés Ravecca after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Huracan Buceo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Braian Vargas 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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Alejo Villalba 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.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Andrés Ravecca out for 111 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Huracan Buceo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Braian Vargas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Federico Ibáñez 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.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Andrés Ravecca out for 118 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Huracan Buceo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Braian Vargas 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rentistas have kept their man, and Huracan Buceo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Andrés Ravecca breaks a bone — 125 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 125 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Alejo Villalba is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Braian Vargas 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Huracan Buceo asked and Basanez said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrés Ravecca, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
Thiago Rodriguez damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Gaston Morales 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Martín Moas 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The formation has left Tomás Cantera behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Mar de Fondo will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Liverpool Montevideo have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“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 dugout4 Jan 2027
Gaston Morales 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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Santiago Godoy has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Mar de Fondo 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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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mar de Fondo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
Market28 Dec 2026
Jorge Mendez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mar de Fondo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Defensor Sporting keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Fernando Godoy 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 112% of the Mar de Fondo income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Cardozo, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
8 new faces, and Mar de Fondo are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Tacuarembo have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Thiago Rodriguez damages knee ligaments — 40 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 40 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Mar de Fondo people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Facundo Jimenez 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A move Tiago da Silva would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Tiago da Silva is living that version at Mar de Fondo, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market14 Dec 2026
Juventud paid $150.0K and Mar de Fondo took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Mar de Fondo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emiliano Valverde 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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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
47 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mar de Fondo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Mar de Fondo people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market7 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Fernando Godoy 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Albion will make the call about Gaston Morales this week. Mar de Fondo have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Mar de Fondo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gaston Morales 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 dugout7 Dec 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.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
Huracan del Paso have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Luis Suárez and Mar de Fondo agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Fernando Silva damages knee ligaments — 31 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad21 Sep 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 Mar de Fondo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Gaston Morales 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
Gaston Morales 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
6 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Mar de Fondo money.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mar de Fondo can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
22 days out for Jose Barrios after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mar de Fondo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Mar de Fondo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emiliano Valverde 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Matias Diaz
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Mar de Fondo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 Aug 2026
39 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marcelo Olivera and Mar de Fondo agree another 3 years.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Fernando Godoy 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gaston Morales 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 dugout3 Aug 2026
Marcelo Olivera 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Mar de Fondo, another week without a signature from Santiago Rios.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The captaincy goes to Santiago Godoy. It is not a job that wins matches, but a dressing room always notices who is given it.