Ignacio Suarez

Striker - Defensor Sporting
16 Dec 2027
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Marked for Ignacio Suarez

30 Edition

The Defensor Sporting Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad22 Feb 2027

A falling-out at Defensor Sporting

Guillermo Varela and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match20 Feb 2027

A bad afternoon for Defensor Sporting against Racing

0‑1 to Racing, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad22 Feb 2027

A row about effort at Defensor Sporting

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edgar Elizalde was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom22 Feb 2027

Nobody left the Defensor Sporting 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.

Loan watch22 Feb 2027

Lorenzo Alfonso counts the days

“I watch every Defensor Sporting game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Frontera Rivera runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Fernando Fernandez to a room that had heard them before.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Ignacio Suarez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ignacio Suarez and Defensor Sporting agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

Edgar Elizalde is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

Kevin Dawson has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Defensor Sporting 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.

In brief

Back issues
29 Edition

The Defensor Sporting Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad15 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Defensor Sporting

Lucas Agazzi 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.

Boardroom15 Feb 2027

6 academy players handed senior numbers at Defensor Sporting

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Transfer targets15 Feb 2027

Belgrano tell Defensor Sporting: Juan Velázquez is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market15 Feb 2027

Defensor Sporting promote Felipe Hernandez from within

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.

Market15 Feb 2027

Ignacio Suarez steps up from the Defensor Sporting academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ignacio Suarez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market15 Feb 2027

Defensor Sporting promote Facundo Cardozo from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Facundo Cardozo 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.

Market15 Feb 2027

One of our own: Juan Pereira joins the Defensor Sporting first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Pereira is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Axel Frugone 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.

Player ratings15 Feb 2027

The game went through Guillermo Varela — 7.61

Marked 7.61 on 10 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

In brief