The Penarol Chronicle
Squad15 Feb 2038
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lorenzo Couture
62 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Penarol lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad15 Feb 2038
A fracture rules Luis Sanchez out for 37 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Penarol will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings15 Feb 2038
A brace, and Eduardo Teixeira takes the afternoon — 8.97
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Eduardo Teixeira provided it, and the 8.97 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad15 Feb 2038
Tempers go at Penarol
Jean Lucas Severo 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.
Boardroom15 Feb 2038
13 academy players handed senior numbers at Penarol
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Player ratings15 Feb 2038
Ninety minutes of Tobías Berón at his very best
Marked 9.34. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Penarol.
Match13 Feb 2038
Penarol find a way past Miramar Misiones
Miramar Misiones made Penarol work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces15 Feb 2038
The crowd has taken to Eduardo Teixeira
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market15 Feb 2038
Bruno Ugarte steps up from the Penarol academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bruno Ugarte 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 Facundo Alvarez steps up from the Penarol academy
- Market Andres Acosta steps up from the Penarol academy
- Market Penarol promote Eduardo Rossi from within