The Juventud Herald
Squad17 Feb 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Maximiliano Ferreira
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Juventud lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad17 Feb 2031
A fracture rules Daniel Santos out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Juventud will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings17 Feb 2031
Nobody could get near Luca Barreto
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Feb 2031
Diego Simoes says Juventud went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match15 Feb 2031
8 unbeaten for Juventud
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Juventud did not have in the autumn.
Boardroom17 Feb 2031
Emiliano Rios signs on for the long haul
Juventud moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Emiliano Rios, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.
Squad17 Feb 2031
Rodrigo Chagas 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 Juventud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Feb 2031
Graduation day at Juventud
9 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
The terraces17 Feb 2031
Juventud supporters have found a favourite in Rodrigo Dudok
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Rodrigo Dudok has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- Match Rodrigo Dudok the difference as Juventud beat Rampla Juniors
- Market One of our own: Cristian Nunez joins the Juventud first team
- Market Juan Ramirez steps up from the Juventud academy