The UCV Post
Squad22 Jan 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kendrys Silva
81 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. UCV lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match20 Jan 2029
UCV strike at the death to beat Portuguesa
There were 88 minutes on the clock and Portuguesa had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and UCV did not stop to explain themselves.
The dugout22 Jan 2029
Leandro Rodríguez: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” UCV have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Juan Manuel Cuesta 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 UCV this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom22 Jan 2029
5 academy graduates step up at UCV
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Words at UCV training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Solé is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets22 Jan 2029
Nacional tell UCV: Alfredo Martínez 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.
The terraces22 Jan 2029
One of their own: Leandro Rodríguez
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market22 Jan 2029
UCV promote Victor Cordova from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Victor Cordova 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.
In brief
- Market Francisco Otero steps up from the UCV academy
- Market Daniel Moreno steps up from the UCV academy
- Market Carlos Osorio steps up from the UCV academy