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Uruguay, once a coronavirus model, struggles against a deadly wave Maite Fernández Simon © Matilde Campodonico/AP Gerson Espitia treats a covid-19 patient in an ambulance headed for the hospital in Salto, Uruguay. Gonzalo Alvarez, a player in Uruguay’s premier basketball league, started feeling the symptoms a few days after a game: fatigue, headaches, lower back pain, loss of taste and smell. A test confirmed his suspicion: covid-19. But he wasn’t the only one. Five teammates, six opponents and an assistant coach in Defensor Sporting’s victory over Capitol last ...

One of Uruguay's youngest clubs following its foundation in 2007, Torque were taken over by the City Football Group a decade later, becoming in the process its first acquisition in South America following similar partnerships in New York, Melbourne and Yokohama. At the start of 2021, City added Bolivian giants Bolivar to their portfolio, the 11th side in the CFG stable, and first associated with the Group under the label “partner club”. “We are very pleased to grow our global presence through this important collaboration with Club Bolivar,” City Football Group chief executive Ferran ...

Godoy Cruz fans flocked to pay tribute to their idol, while the circumstances of his death opened up one of football's most sensitive debates: how the sport must care for its employees' mental, as well as physical health. Garcia grew up in the Barrio Colon neighbourhood on the impoverished fringes of Montevideo, and as a youngster was snapped up by Uruguayan giants Nacional, the same club that produced Luis Suarez. In 2008, two years after Suarez had left Montevideo for the Netherlands, a 17-year-old Garcia marked his first-team debut with a goal against Defensor Sporting, and quickly became ...