Marked for Gary Silva
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match17 Mar 2027
The small margins put Progreso out
Out, 1‑1 to Deportivo Maldonado, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match20 Mar 2027
8 matches without a win for Progreso
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Progreso are no longer polite ones.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Andrés Mehring decides it from twelve yards
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Agustín Pinheiro 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match20 Mar 2027
1‑2 to Cerro Largo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.18, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Progreso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Deportivo Maldonado to sit and watch. I want to come back to Progreso and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Progreso, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market4 Jan 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Plaza Colonia moved on, Kleyber Cuesta reports back to Progreso, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad4 Jan 2027
51 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Progreso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Agustín Codagnone and Progreso agree another 5 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
José Vanetta asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 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 Progreso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 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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Steady
Market14 Dec 2026
The bid was some way short and Progreso did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Agustín Pinheiro 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
Add another name to the list: Uruguay Montevideo have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Gary Silva. The answer from Progreso has not changed — yet.
Market14 Dec 2026
Central Espanol paid $45.0K and Progreso took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Agustín Paz knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Agustín Paz trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad14 Dec 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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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Deportivo Maldonado ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Gary Silva runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Gonzalo Silva
Defensive actions: 28. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Fabricio Fernández 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.49 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Montevideo City Torque, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Agustín Paz asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Progreso march on in the cup
Tacuarembo are out and Progreso go through, 3‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad17 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 Progreso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 9.13 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Agustín Pinheiro, and the manager let it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.58 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match15 Aug 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad17 Aug 2026
José Vanetta finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Progreso have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.