The Uruguay Montevideo Courier
Squad15 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Uruguay Montevideo
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Uruguay Montevideo lose Facundo Torres
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Luciano Minhondo 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 dugout15 Nov 2027
Cristian Lima 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 Cristian Lima trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
8 goals on loan for Francisco Martinicorena
15 appearances at Cooper and the goals keep coming. Uruguay Montevideo are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Leonardo Olavarría has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Uruguay Montevideo 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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
A promise honoured at Uruguay Montevideo
Something was said to Juan Álvarez and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Market15 Nov 2027
Matías Rigoleto linked with a move away
The name of Matías Rigoleto keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Uruguay Montevideo say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
A door opens for Yoel Gerez
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
In brief
- Squad The penny has dropped for Joan Esteche
- Match Nothing left to play for but pride at Uruguay Montevideo