Marked for Facundo Silvera
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad29 Nov 2027
A fracture rules Facundo Silvera out for 16 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Montevideo City Torque will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market29 Nov 2027
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Montevideo City Torque can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Pablo Siles 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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrés Muñoz 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 dugout29 Nov 2027
Esteban Obregón has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Montevideo City Torque will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Montevideo City Torque. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad22 Nov 2027
A fracture rules Facundo Silvera out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Montevideo City Torque will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market22 Nov 2027
Rodrigo Sena has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Montevideo City Torque they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrés Muñoz 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 dugout22 Nov 2027
Nobody at Montevideo City Torque will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Lucas Duré asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Squad15 Nov 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Gary Kagelmacher 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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
José Tarán 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.
Match15 Nov 2027
53 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Nov 2027
41 days out for Facundo Silvera after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Montevideo City Torque will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market8 Nov 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Julián Pou 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Andrés Muñoz 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 dugout8 Nov 2027
Pablo Siles has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Montevideo City Torque will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Montevideo City Torque will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Loan watch8 Nov 2027
28 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Loan watch8 Nov 2027
22 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market8 Nov 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luka Andrade’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Nov 2027
50 days out for Facundo Silvera after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Montevideo City Torque will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad1 Nov 2027
14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Montevideo City Torque lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
Eduardo Agüero: 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.” Montevideo City Torque have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad1 Nov 2027
At 21, Diogo Guzmán is already the best thing here
An average of 7.23 in a first team he is several years too young for. Montevideo City Torque have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Diogo Guzmán 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 Montevideo City Torque this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
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 Esteban Obregón is on it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad25 Oct 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad25 Oct 2027
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Montevideo City Torque lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market25 Oct 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Montevideo City Torque is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Diogo Guzmán 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.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
Nobody at Montevideo City Torque will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad18 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Facundo Silvera out for 65 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Montevideo City Torque will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad18 Oct 2027
30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Montevideo City Torque lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Pablo Siles 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 Montevideo City Torque this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Oct 2027
20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Nobody at Montevideo City Torque will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Match18 Oct 2027
53 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Facundo Silvera out for 72 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Montevideo City Torque will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Oct 2027
37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Montevideo City Torque lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market11 Oct 2027
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Montevideo City Torque can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Pablo Siles 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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Pablo Siles has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Montevideo City Torque will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
The goals keep arriving from Maximiliano Noble’s exile
4 goals in 28 games at Plaza Colonia — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Montevideo City Torque updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
The goals keep arriving from Nahuel da Silva’s exile
4 goals in 22 games at Atlanta United FC — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Montevideo City Torque updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Market11 Oct 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luka Andrade’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.