Marked for Ignacio Pintos
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
This is not rotation. Franco López has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Paysandu FC is pretending otherwise.
Match26 Jun 2027
The run at home goes on for Paysandu FC
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
The deal with Fenix is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Franco López 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Paysandu FC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nazareno Ferreyra 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.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Fenix have kept their man, and Paysandu FC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Chacarita Juniors: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
A mark of 7.34, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Match15 May 2027
Whatever happens, Paysandu FC do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market17 May 2027
Only the photograph left for Alexis Iturria
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexis Iturria will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Paysandu FC the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad17 May 2027
Nazareno Ferreyra falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces17 May 2027
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match15 May 2027
5 matches without defeat, and then Cerrito. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Squad17 May 2027
A goalkeeper's career is counted in the games nobody scored in, and Nazareno Ferreyra now has 25 of them across 49 appearances. Nothing about that number was luck.
Squad17 May 2027
Camilo Lozano and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 May 2027
The half-term report on Paysandu FC
Position 3, 24 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Loan watch17 May 2027
“I watch every Paysandu FC game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Bella Italia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Upbeat
Squad8 Feb 2027
41 days out for Julián Huertas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Paysandu FC will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market8 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Ezequiel Amaro
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ezequiel Amaro will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Paysandu FC the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nazareno Ferreyra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market8 Feb 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Leonardo Rossi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bruno Mendez 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Camilo Lozano 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.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Paysandu FC lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market28 Dec 2026
The offer from Defensor Sporting for Ignacio Pintos was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Paysandu FC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Maximiliano Cantera 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
The phone has started ringing about Emiliano Bonilla again, and this time the name on the line is Durazno. Paysandu FC are listening politely and promising nothing.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
123% of the income goes out in wages at Paysandu FC
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Colón have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Market28 Dec 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Alto Peru will make the call about Alexis Iturria this week. Paysandu FC have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dilan Cardozo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Dec 2026
46 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Paysandu FC lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match21 Dec 2026
First, on 56 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Market21 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Alto Peru waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Paysandu FC is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Nazareno Ferreyra 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.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Juventud have kept their man, and Paysandu FC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Juventud: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Paysandu FC have made the call to Nacional. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market21 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Maximiliano Cantera signs something — a contract at Paysandu FC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kevin Palivoda is on it.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
81 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Paysandu FC lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Juan Silvera: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Paysandu FC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market16 Nov 2026
Juan Silvera has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Paysandu FC they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market16 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad16 Nov 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 Paysandu FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout16 Nov 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.
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Triumph
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 38. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match29 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Terremoto, and it could have been more.
Match29 Aug 2026
7 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad31 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Gabriel Leyes yet — 9.49
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.49 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Juan Silvera has agreed terms with Artigas for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Maximiliano Cantera and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match29 Aug 2026
Paysandu FC keep winning on the road
4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Match25 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Camilo Lozano. 1‑0 against Renegades, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Triumph
Match22 Aug 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Franco López takes the afternoon — 9.04
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Franco López provided it, and the 9.04 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad24 Aug 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Gabriel Leyes yet — 9.44
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.44 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match22 Aug 2026
5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Market24 Aug 2026
Juan Silvera has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Paysandu FC they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 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 Paysandu FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match18 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Franco López’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Paysandu FC.