Marked for Alejandro Prieto
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 90 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Juan Moreno 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 La Luz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at La Luz
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jhonathan Ramis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 196% of the La Luz income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonathan Barboza, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I will play as long as the body lets me and stop the day it does not.” He is 35, with 185 appearances behind him, and the club has to plan for a decision that is not yet made.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
106 days out for Alejandro Prieto after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. La Luz will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at La Luz
18 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Upbeat
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Alejandro Prieto out for 115 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason La Luz will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at La Luz
Alejandro Prieto 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Lusiel Gómez is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at La Luz has been clear about where Lusiel Gómez stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jhonathan Ramis has written the date down.
Market24 Aug 2026
La Luz have made Luca Araújo available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
123 days out for Alejandro Prieto after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. La Luz will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for La Luz
1‑2 against Montevideo City Torque, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at La Luz
Juan Moreno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Juan Moreno
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Pablo Morales left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Jhonathan Ramis
Nobody at La Luz is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Bruno Scorza gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Bruno Scorza is on it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Not in the side at kick-off and the story of it by the end. La Luz were going nowhere until he came on, and half an hour was all he needed.
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Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.00, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at La Luz
Juan Moreno 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Jorge Castro joins the La Luz first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jorge Castro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Miguel Rios joins the La Luz first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Miguel Rios is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ignacio Mendez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Miguel Suarez 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Maximiliano Brito’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to La Luz.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Pablo Morales, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.