Franco Araujo

Striker - Juventud U18
2 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Franco Araujo

2 Edition

The Juventud Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Facundo Pérez has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Juventud they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Facundo Pérez signs for Montevideo City Torque while still at Juventud

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Facundo Pérez has agreed terms with Montevideo City Torque for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Rodrigo Chagas signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rodrigo Chagas commits to Juventud for another 4 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Juventud

Sebastián Sosa 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.

Market

Juventud promote Carlos Acosta from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Carlos Acosta 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.

Market

Franco Araujo steps up from the Juventud academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Franco Araujo 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.

Market

One of our own: Kevin Garcia joins the Juventud first team

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

Player ratings

Ramiro Peralta beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Matías Zunino is a square peg at Juventud

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief