The Nacional Sentinel
Market7 Jun 2027
Matías Almeida has said yes to Sol de America
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Nacional have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market7 Jun 2027
Juan González puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Nacional, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Jun 2027
Santiago Rojas 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Nacional
Santiago Rojas 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.
Match5 Jun 2027
Josué Colmán’s goal not enough for Nacional
Josué Colmán scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Olimpia, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Thomás Gutiérrez
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Gustavo Dionisi 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 dugout7 Jun 2027
Richard Prieto left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Richard Prieto will call it something else in private.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Juan Cubas to a room that had heard them before.
In brief
- Squad Hugo Benítez named in the team of the month
- Market Richard Prieto placed on the list
- The dugout The form table has caught Celso Ortiz