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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
122 minutes played. Francisco Martinicorena found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Danubio went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.08 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Emiliano García and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Uruguay Montevideo 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Brian Rodriguez on a 3‑2 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Assists: 3. Every one of them arrived at a moment somebody else could take the credit for, and he was happy to let them.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Cristian Lima has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Uruguay Montevideo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Cristian Lima has agreed terms with Juventud for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sebastián Camacho 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout17 Aug 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.
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.73, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Crisis
Match8 Aug 2026
1‑6 to La Luz, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Richard González 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. Richard González has, at Uruguay Montevideo, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
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 Uruguay Montevideo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Uruguay Montevideo and La Luz in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mathías Abero, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Diego Castro 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Manuel Mendez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Varela is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Santiago Godoy 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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Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
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 7.30 for the rest of it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sebastián Camacho 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
2‑3 to Oriental, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Matías Rigoleto’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leonardo Olavarría was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 Aug 2026
17 new faces, and Uruguay Montevideo 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 dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 Brian Rodriguez left the room before anybody could ask which.