From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Colon
Leandro Méndez 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Colon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Chopitea 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Colon
17 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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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Colon
Leandro Méndez 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Colon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Chopitea 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
Jairo Guerra knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jairo Guerra trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Jairo Guerra: 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.” Colon have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 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 Colon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sergio Varela 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nicolas Jimenez 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nahuel Marzochi 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Steady
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Nikola Perić
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nikola Perić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Colon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Colon
Leandro Méndez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 278% of everything Colon earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Anthony Vilche
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colon lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Colon
Leandro Méndez 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Agustín Chopitea 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Anthony Vilche
27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colon lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Colon
Leandro Méndez 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Nahuel Marzochi 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Anthony Vilche damages knee ligaments — 34 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 34 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.
Squad14 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 Colon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bruno Silva 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.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Anthony Vilche
42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colon lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Agustín Rodríguez had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market7 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Nikola Perić
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nikola Perić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Colon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Colon
Leandro Méndez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Agustín Chopitea 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
Tomás Lerman is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Tomás Lerman has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
49 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Colon lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Colon
Leandro Méndez 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.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Ghazl El Mahalla have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Agustín Rodríguez. The answer from Colon has not changed — yet.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Colon
Leandro Méndez 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Agustín Chopitea 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Colon out
Out, 0‑1 to Cerro Largo, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
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 Colon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Colon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Agustín Chopitea was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Jairo Guerra knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jairo Guerra trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market17 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Jonathan Ríos may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I am not asking anybody to be better than they are. I am asking everybody to be as good as they are, every week.” Said out loud, in front of everybody, and the room at Colon was different afterwards.
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Upbeat
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Anthony Sosa goes up and wins it — 7.88
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.88 for the rest of it.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Market10 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Nikola Perić
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nikola Perić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Colon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Colon
Leandro Méndez 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
A 2‑1 win over Uruguay Montevideo, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Nahuel Marzochi 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Torres 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pablo Suarez 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Bruno Airaldi at 21 — 7.61
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bruno Airaldi did not need any: 7.61, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrés Olivera and Colon agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match1 Aug 2026
Colon come up short against Atenas
Atenas left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Colon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leandro Méndez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Colon
Anthony Sosa 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Bruno Airaldi had Colon level again within 3 minutes, and Atenas never got to play with a lead at all.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Agustín Chopitea, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Andrés Olivera'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.