Líder Cáceres

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Marked for Líder Cáceres

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The Nacional Sentinel

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad8 Mar 2027

Gerardo Ortiz decides it from twelve yards

2 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.

Match3 Mar 2027

Cup progress for Nacional

A 1‑1 win over Sportivo Trinidense, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings8 Mar 2027

Nobody could get near Iván Valdez

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Orlando Gaona Lugo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Orlando Gaona Lugo commits to Nacional for another 2 years.

Squad8 Mar 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.

The terraces8 Mar 2027

Nacional supporters have found a favourite in Hugo Benítez

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Hugo Benítez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad8 Mar 2027

The manager makes an example of Diego Duarte

“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.

Match6 Mar 2027

Nacional find a way past 12 de Octubre

12 de Octubre made Nacional work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings8 Mar 2027

The game went through Danilo Santacruz — 6.63

Marked 6.63 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

In brief

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The Nacional Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match12 Aug 2026

Nacional march on in the cup

Sportivo Trinidense are out and Nacional go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Iván Valdez scores twice — 8.32

Two goals and a mark of 8.32 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Líder Cáceres, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.81

A mark of 7.81 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market17 Aug 2026

Najran come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Nacional did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Santiago Rojas 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 Nacional this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Franco Pelozo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Nacional training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Morel 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

When it matters, Iván Valdez 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Iván Valdez finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Nacional have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief