
Players from Penarol's youth teams leave the Federico Valverde Pitch after a training session at the club's training complex next to the Campeon del Siglo stadium in Montevideo, on April 15, 2026. Nestled in a working-class neighborhood of Montevideo, the field where Federico Valverde took his first steps in football at the age of three frames, nearly a quarter of a century later, the dream of a new generation seeking to emulate the tenacious midfielder, a leader of Uruguay at the World Cup. (Photo by Eitan ABRAMOVICH / AFP via Getty Images)

