This town ain’t big enough for all of us
Fernando Fadeuille, the sporting director of Defensor Sporting, sighs. “It is impossible. It is not sustainable,” he says. “The majority of Uruguayan clubs have debts and need to sell players to pay those debts, but it is very difficult in a city of1.5 million inhabitants to have 23 professional clubs. In important cities, in Milan you have two clubs. You can’t sustain this.”
He knows what he is talking about. After a playing career at Defensor and a slate of other local clubs, as well as brief spells with both Cyprus’ Limassol and Colombia’s Millonarios, Fadeuille enrolled in a sports management course to transition to an executive role at his former club.
He understands the domestic scene, which defensor have been a part of since 1913, inside out.
The club sits at the southern, has football clubs on every corner.
