The Artigas Chronicle
Squad7 Jun 2027
Luiz damages knee ligaments — 45 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 45 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.
Match5 Jun 2027
The wait goes on for Artigas
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Victor Campos gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Victor Campos has just signed for Artigas, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Pablo Suárez 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 Artigas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Emilio MacEachen 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.
Match5 Jun 2027
Carlos da Rosa’s goal not enough for Artigas
Carlos da Rosa scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Plaza Colonia, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Nobody could get near Harrison Wood
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Carlos da Rosa changes it off the bench
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Artigas had a different afternoon.
Market7 Jun 2027
Agustín Rodríguez arrives on loan
Artigas have taken Agustín Rodríguez on loan from Colon — cover where cover was needed.
In brief
- Market Victor Campos joins Artigas on a free
- Market Artigas pick up Fabian Pastenes for nothing