Daniel Rodriguez

Striker - Mar de Fondo
1 Mar 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Daniel Rodriguez

28 Edition

The Mar de Fondo Chronicle

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Ivan Godoy has said yes to Imishli

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Mar de Fondo have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Squad

A fracture rules Maximiliano Torena out for 91 days

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

Squad

Joaquin Vieira in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Words at Mar de Fondo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Hernandez 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 dugout

Maximiliano Torena knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Maximiliano Torena trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Ramon Viera linked with a move away

The name of Ramon Viera keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mar de Fondo say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Mar de Fondo Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Lucas Fernandez

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mar de Fondo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

77 days out for Iván Cardozo 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.

Market

Ignacio Martinez hands in a written request

“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.

Market

Mar de Fondo turn down Rampla Juniors for Joaquin Vieira

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Ignacio Martinez’s move to Uruguay Montevideo falls through

The deal that would have taken Ignacio Martinez to Uruguay Montevideo has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Mar de Fondo with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Joaquín Fernández rejects the move

Mar de Fondo had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Deportivo Maldonado, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Tempers go at Mar de Fondo

Joaquin Vieira 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Pablo Morales at Mar de Fondo

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Pablo Morales is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Daniel Rodriguez

“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.

In brief