From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match29 May 2027
8 matches without a win for Tacuarembo
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Tacuarembo are no longer polite ones.
Market31 May 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tacuarembo can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad31 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Santiago Sequeira, and the manager let it.
Squad31 May 2027
Agustín Coitto 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.
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Crisis
Match19 May 2027
Wanderers go through and Tacuarembo go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market24 May 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Tacuarembo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match22 May 2027
No end in sight to Tacuarembo's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tacuarembo has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tacuarembo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad24 May 2027
Pablo López 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 May 2027
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Match22 May 2027
Santiago Sequeira scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Colon, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings24 May 2027
A performance of 8.75 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market17 May 2027
Martín Marta hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tacuarembo can pretend not to have heard.
Match17 May 2027
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match15 May 2027
5 matches without a win for Tacuarembo
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Tacuarembo are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Pintado, and the manager let it.
Match15 May 2027
Uruguay Montevideo left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market10 May 2027
Nahuel Píriz hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tacuarembo can pretend not to have heard.
Match8 May 2027
4 matches without a win for Tacuarembo
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Tacuarembo are no longer polite ones.
Squad10 May 2027
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Squad10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Martín Marta
“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.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Coitto 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 May 2027
“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 Tacuarembo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 May 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.
Player ratings3 May 2027
26 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings3 May 2027
23 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Match1 May 2027
Whatever happens, Tacuarembo do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad3 May 2027
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Álvaro San Emeterio 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.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom3 May 2027
88% of the income goes out in wages at Tacuarembo
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market26 Apr 2027
“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 Tacuarembo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tacuarembo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Marked 8.24 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Coitto 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 ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market19 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Álex Perdomo: 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.” Tacuarembo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Leonardo Olavarría 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 Apr 2027
“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 ratings19 Apr 2027
Marked 8.51 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Álex Perdomo 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Central Espanol leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
5.64. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market12 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 Apr 2027
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Pablo López 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 Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
22 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Marked 9.19 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The terraces12 Apr 2027
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market12 Apr 2027
Pablo López told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Pablo López has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Tacuarembo.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match5 Apr 2027
Every point is an argument now for Tacuarembo
Position 12 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Market5 Apr 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Tacuarembo has been clear about where Leonardo Olavarría stands, which is more than many ever get.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Álvaro San Emeterio was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.68. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Marked 8.22 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Coitto 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.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
87% of the income goes out in wages at Tacuarembo
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Mateo Pereyra
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Mateo Pereyra has come out of that comparison in the side, and Tacuarembo have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market29 Mar 2027
Nahuel Píriz hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tacuarembo can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 29 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad29 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Ninety minutes of Pablo López at his very best
Marked 8.72. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Tacuarembo.
Match27 Mar 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Pablo López’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tacuarembo.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Álex Perdomo 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Álex Perdomo, and the manager let it.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Mar 2027
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match17 Mar 2027
Cerro are out and Tacuarembo go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market22 Mar 2027
Martín Marta hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tacuarembo can pretend not to have heard.
Match20 Mar 2027
8 matches without a win for Tacuarembo
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Tacuarembo are no longer polite ones.
Squad22 Mar 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Defensive actions: 24. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
20 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market15 Mar 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match13 Mar 2027
6 matches without a win for Tacuarembo
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Tacuarembo are no longer polite ones.
Match13 Mar 2027
4 matches without a goal for Tacuarembo
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad15 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“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.
Match13 Mar 2027
0‑1 to Rampla Juniors, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Agustín Coitto 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Federico Pintado has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tacuarembo 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
Uneasy
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tacuarembo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match6 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Tacuarembo
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
The Tacuarembo board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
A chastening introduction for Thiago Rodríguez — 5.66
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.66 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Defensive actions: 24. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
19 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Álex Perdomo 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
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tacuarembo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match27 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Tacuarembo's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tacuarembo has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Pablo López 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 Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
Fenix left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Shots: 12, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Feb 2027
Martín Marta: 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.” Tacuarembo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market22 Feb 2027
“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 Tacuarembo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Coitto 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match13 Feb 2027
Diego Méndez had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Uruguay Montevideo were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Market15 Feb 2027
“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 Tacuarembo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Jean Lucas Severo, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.91
A mark of 7.91 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad15 Feb 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Tacuarembo
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market15 Feb 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Camilo Valverde 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Ayrton Castro
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
“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 Tacuarembo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tacuarembo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martín Marta, and the manager let it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Álex Perdomo 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
Squad18 Jan 2027
Pablo López 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 Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Diego Méndez
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market11 Jan 2027
“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 Tacuarembo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“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
Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
Anderson Brum hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tacuarembo can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Anderson Brum: 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.” Tacuarembo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market28 Dec 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 Tacuarembo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Pablo López 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Olavarría 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad21 Dec 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 Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jean Lucas Severo is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Santiago Vargas 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
A season-long audition: Central Espanol still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Tacuarembo's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Martín Marta 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Nobody at Tacuarembo 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.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Miguel Magallanes damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 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 Dec 2026
Álvaro San Emeterio 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ayrton Castro and Tacuarembo agree another 4 years.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Miguel Magallanes damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tacuarembo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Miguel Magallanes damages knee ligaments — 31 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.
Squad23 Nov 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 Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Álvaro San Emeterio, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Pablo López 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Squad16 Nov 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
Steady
Squad9 Nov 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 Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Martín Marta 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Álex Perdomo 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Álex Perdomo 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 Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 150% of everything Tacuarembo 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Esteban de Lima commits to Tacuarembo for another 5 years.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Álex Perdomo 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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Álvaro San Emeterio, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tacuarembo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Leonardo Olavarría 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
“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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Mello
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tacuarembo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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 Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martín Marta, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Nicolás Mello damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Pablo López 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Olavarría 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Nicolás Mello 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.
Squad28 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 Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Agustín Coitto 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
Nicolás Mello damages knee ligaments — 41 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 41 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Leonardo Olavarría 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
“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
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nicolás Mello damages knee ligaments — 48 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 48 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
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Álex Perdomo 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Esteban de Lima damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 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
Leonardo Olavarría 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lucão out for 16 days
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Lucão, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 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 Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ángel Maciel 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Álex Perdomo 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
Nacional go through and Tacuarembo 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Pablo López 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.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Progreso are out and Tacuarembo go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match12 Aug 2026
Tacuarembo win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 112th minute. Progreso will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
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 Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.98, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Federico Ferreira 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Santiago Vargas 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
Uneasy
Squad10 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 Tacuarembo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Néstor Álvarez
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Pablo López
Still no offer on the table, and Pablo López’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.64 on the card, and the Tacuarembo support went home talking about one name.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ángel Maciel dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Atenas will be the happier side with the point.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ángel Maciel has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Tacuarembo that is a harder question to answer.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leonardo Olavarría and Tacuarembo agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Pablo López 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Tacuarembo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Olavarría 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Pablo López
“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.
Match1 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Albion, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Leonardo Olavarría’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
5.72. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.