Marked for Andrés Samurio
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
Mathías Abero 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Andrés Samurio is training like a man with a point to make
Nobody has promised him anything and he has not asked. The coaching staff have noticed, which at this stage of a season is the only thing that matters.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 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 Uruguay Montevideo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tobías Correa and Uruguay Montevideo agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad19 Oct 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
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 Uruguay Montevideo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Andrés Samurio has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Squad21 Sep 2026
He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Uruguay Montevideo will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
Wanderers go through and Uruguay Montevideo go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 27 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mathías Abero 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
The manager makes an example of Andrés Samurio
“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: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Facundo Silvestre has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.32 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
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 Uruguay Montevideo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Mathías Abero has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Uruguay Montevideo.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maximiliano Lombardi, and the manager let it.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over La Luz, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Andrés Samurio's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.