The Instituto Chronicle
Squad21 Dec 2026
Matías Tissera damages knee ligaments — 105 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 105 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Instituto are in Europe
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Gastón Lodico is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Instituto will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market21 Dec 2026
Diego Daguerre is a Instituto player
The fee is $870.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Cerro Largo drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Joaquín Rivero signs for Platense while still at Instituto
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Joaquín Rivero has agreed terms with Platense for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Market21 Dec 2026
Joaquín Rivero has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Instituto they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Manuel Roffo 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 Instituto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
León Mancini will join Instituto for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. León Mancini has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Instituto have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Market21 Dec 2026
Deportes Quindio join the queue for Lautaro Maldonado
Add another name to the list: Deportes Quindio have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Lautaro Maldonado. The answer from Instituto has not changed — yet.
In brief
- Squad Santiago Tallarico signs a new deal
- Market Instituto sign Nazar Domchak, one for the future