The Nacional Sentinel
Squad27 Sep 2027
Emiliano del Pino breaks a bone — 27 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market27 Sep 2027
Emiliano de Oliveira has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nacional they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Nacional
Juan Cruz de los Santos 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Nacional
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Boggio was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market27 Sep 2027
Juan Pablo Patiño has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Nacional can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
When it matters, Juan Cruz de los Santos plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Market The Juan Cruz de los Santos talk will not go away
- The dugout The manager makes Alexis Martín Arias a promise
- Squad Facundo González has settled at Nacional
- The dugout Alejandro Martínez keeps his manager's vote