From our football correspondent
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Squad25 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 Tembetary this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Tembetary
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jorge Colmán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Tembetary. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
Bryan Bentaberry 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Tembetary
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jorge Colmán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Matías Silvero
“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.
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Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Tembetary
Bryan Bentaberry 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Bryan Bentaberry arrived with a record at a bigger club than this one, and the room has treated him accordingly. The young ones watch him train; the senior ones watch to see whether it lasts.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Tembetary would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Bryan Bentaberry and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Jorge Colmán 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Independiente have kept their man, and Tembetary go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Tembetary will try again when the window opens; Sol de America may not be selling by then.
The dugout4 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mateo Cardona and Tembetary agree another 3 years.
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Market28 Dec 2026
The fee is $83.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Sportivo Luqueno drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad28 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 Tembetary this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Francisco Rivera has just signed for Tembetary, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Jorge Colmán 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.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Tembetary have made the call to Olimpia. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
A loan move for Hugo Quintana is in the works
Tembetary have made the call to Independiente. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Lanús have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Francisco Rivera and Tembetary agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market28 Dec 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Tembetary, another week without a signature from Pulvio Aranda.
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Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Fee done, terms next for Mateo Jara
Tembetary and Sportivo Luqueno have settled on $83.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Miguel Busto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
$280.0K was the most the club would pay and Guarani were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market21 Dec 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Zulia will make the call about Leonardo Rolón this week. Tembetary have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
The dugout21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The formation has left René Rodríguez behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Tembetary will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Steady
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
Tembetary have gone to Guarani with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Tembetary
Miguel Urquiza 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.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
$63.0K was the most the club would pay and Sportivo Trinidense were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Jorge Colmán 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.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Sol de America: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fabricio Brener and Tembetary agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Miguel Busto 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.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
An offer of $41.0K for Axel Cañete
Tembetary have gone to Sportivo Trinidense with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Tembetary
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Mencia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sportivo Luqueno have kept their man, and Tembetary go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout7 Dec 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.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
A loan move for Jesús Alvarenga is in the works
Tembetary have made the call to Guarani. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad7 Dec 2026
6 new faces, and Tembetary are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout7 Dec 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.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Tembetary
Miguel Busto 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Matías Silvero back under a manager who knows him
The new man at Tembetary has worked with Matías Silvero before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Tembetary. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Derlys Cabañas 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Tembetary
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miguel Busto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Fabricio Brener
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Tembetary will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Tembetary
Derlys Cabañas 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Diego Mencia 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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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
A move Sebastián Benítez would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sebastián Benítez is living that version at Tembetary, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Miguel Busto 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
Matías Silvero back under a manager who knows him
The new man at Tembetary has worked with Matías Silvero before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Luis Lezcano and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Tembetary training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miguel Busto 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
Matías Silvero back under a manager who knows him
The new man at Tembetary has worked with Matías Silvero before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Miguel Busto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Diego Mencia 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Matías Silvero back under a manager who knows him
The new man at Tembetary has worked with Matías Silvero before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Miguel Busto 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 Tembetary this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Matías Silvero back under a manager who knows him
The new man at Tembetary has worked with Matías Silvero before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Time is catching up with Roger Torres
Everybody at Tembetary saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 35 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
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 Leonardo Rolón is on it.
Market19 Oct 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Adolfo González is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Miguel Urquiza and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Miguel Busto 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
Everybody at Tembetary saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 34 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Matías Silvero back under a manager who knows him
The new man at Tembetary has worked with Matías Silvero before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
21 new faces, and Tembetary are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
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Steady
Squad5 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 Tembetary this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Diego Mencia 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
Matías Silvero back under a manager who knows him
The new man at Tembetary has worked with Matías Silvero before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Derlys Cabañas 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Silvero, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 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.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Tembetary
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miguel Busto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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 Leonardo Rolón is on it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Orlando Colmán arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Orlando Colmán has, at Tembetary, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Miguel Busto 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 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Tembetary
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Mencia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Tembetary, another week without a signature from Orlando Colmán.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Tembetary
20 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
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 Néstor Esteche is on it.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Tembetary
Miguel Busto 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Miguel Urquiza
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Miguel Urquiza 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Tembetary training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miguel Busto 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 dugout31 Aug 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.
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Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Tembetary out
Out, 2‑2 to Guarani, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Miguel Busto 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 Tembetary this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Tembetary
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Mencia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 23 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.
Match19 Aug 2026
A goal on 114 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Twelve yards and the whole ground holding its breath, and it did not go in. He will put his name down for the next one, which is the only thing to do.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Oscar Almiron and Tembetary agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Tembetary march on in the cup
Guairena are out and Tembetary go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.25 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Derlys Cabañas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.47 — 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No place for Jeremy Flor in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Tembetary are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Tembetary
19 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Squad10 Aug 2026
Miguel Urquiza arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Miguel Urquiza has, at Tembetary, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market10 Aug 2026
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market10 Aug 2026
The shirt still fits. Joel Aguilar is back at Tembetary, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Derlys Cabañas 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 Aug 2026
Miguel Busto 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cristian Enciso 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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Squad3 Aug 2026
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Franco Aragón leaves Tembetary the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market3 Aug 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Edgar Ferreira leaves Tembetary the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.