The Sportivo Luqueno Gazette
Match5 Feb 2028
Sportivo Luqueno turn it around against Nacional
Going 2 down does something to a side, and what it usually does is finish them. Not here. Sportivo Luqueno rebuilt the afternoon goal by goal, and Nacional had no answer to any of it.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A day Iván Maggi will not forget
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
A new deal for Jorge Sanabria
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Sportivo Luqueno
Diego Mastrángelo 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.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Sportivo Luqueno
5 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.
Match5 Feb 2028
Iván Maggi the difference as Sportivo Luqueno beat Nacional
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Iván Maggi. 3‑2 against Nacional, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Iván Maggi was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.47. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Sportivo Luqueno
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Briñone was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market7 Feb 2028
Oscar Gomez steps up from the Sportivo Luqueno academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Oscar Gomez 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Adrian Gonzalez joins the Sportivo Luqueno first team
- Market One of our own: Pablo Sanabria joins the Sportivo Luqueno first team
- Market Sportivo Luqueno promote Adrian Barrios from within