Marked for Jhonathan Ramis
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 129 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Thiago Dubroca
92 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. La Luz lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at La Luz
Maximiliano Brito 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.
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Squad
Words at La Luz training over how hard people work
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 136 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Thiago Dubroca damages knee ligaments — 100 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 100 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at La Luz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 143 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” La Luz may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at La Luz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhonathan Ramis 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.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at La Luz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jhonathan Ramis 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Delis Vargas
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Delis Vargas has come out of that comparison in the side, and La Luz have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Mauricio Aquino: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put La Luz out
Out, 0‑0 to Nacional, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at La Luz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
La Luz march on in the cup
Montevideo City Torque are out and La Luz go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match12 Aug 2026
Lucas Pías wins it after the whistle should have gone
92 minutes played. Lucas Pías found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Montevideo City Torque went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at La Luz
Maximiliano Brito 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at La Luz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhonathan Ramis 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
La Luz supporters have found a favourite in Lucas Pías
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Lucas Pías has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Lucas Pías
A mark of 7.86, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mauricio Aquino and La Luz agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at La Luz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jhonathan Ramis 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Delis Vargas at his very best
Marked 8.08. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at La Luz.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Mauricio Aquino’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.