Marked for Joaquín Silva
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Valentín Amoroso
113 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Plaza Colonia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Plaza Colonia, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Pablo Adorno
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Máximo Lorenzi 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Plaza Colonia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Valentín Amoroso damages knee ligaments — 121 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 121 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match5 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Plaza Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Máximo Lorenzi 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Pablo García gets it from the manager
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
129 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Plaza Colonia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match29 Aug 2026
Tomás Escalante wins it after the whistle should have gone
93 minutes played. Tomás Escalante found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and River Plate went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Plaza Colonia — 7.89
1 for Tomás Escalante, marked 7.89, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Tomás Escalante’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Plaza Colonia.
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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Gabriel Perez could afford to be generous.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Plaza Colonia have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
Looking ahead31 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Penarol in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Valentín Amoroso damages knee ligaments — 136 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 136 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.
Match19 Aug 2026
0‑1 against Wanderers, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Plaza Colonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Máximo Lorenzi 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 dugout24 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Gabriel Perez after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout24 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Michael Covea
Nobody at Plaza Colonia 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.
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Upbeat
Match15 Aug 2026
A 3‑1 win over Miramar Misiones, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match12 Aug 2026
Miramar Misiones are out and Plaza Colonia go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Lucas Carrizo takes the afternoon — 8.96
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lucas Carrizo provided it, and the 8.96 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Yacouba Meïté, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.01
A mark of 8.01 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Michael Covea yet — 8.05
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.05 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad17 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 Plaza Colonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Lucas Carrizo 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Joaquín Silva
“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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 2‑5 beating by Boston River was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lucas Carrizo 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Plaza Colonia and Boston River in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ignacio De Arrascaeta 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Leonardo Olivera 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Santiago Pereira 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. Luis Valverde 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.
The dugout10 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.