Marked for Agustín Codagnone
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Steady
The dugout25 Oct 2027
Augusto Alcorcel: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Progreso have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market25 Oct 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Progreso is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Progreso
Agustín Pinheiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Veglio 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.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
Mauro Martín gets it from the manager
“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.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Agustín Codagnone's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Steady
Market27 Sep 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Progreso is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Oliva 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Progreso
Ramiro Luna and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout27 Sep 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.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Progreso told Agustín Hausch something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Agustín Codagnone's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Steady
Market30 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Progreso is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Progreso
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emiliano Álvarez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Progreso
Ramiro Luna and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match28 Aug 2027
0‑2 to Defensor Sporting, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout30 Aug 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.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Gabriel Ferreira left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Federico Andueza will call it something else in private.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad30 Aug 2027
At 32 he has taken a place rather than been given one, and somebody else has to find something to say about it. Progreso have a decision that made itself.
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Uneasy
Match15 May 2027
11 matches without a win for Progreso
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Progreso are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Up for the corner, and Ayrton Cougo delivers — 7.60
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Ayrton Cougo scored, was marked 7.60, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad17 May 2027
Emiliano Álvarez 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 dugout17 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gonzalo Silva, and the manager let it.
Match15 May 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout17 May 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Gabriel Ferreira after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout17 May 2027
Nobody at Progreso will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout17 May 2027
Agustín Codagnone is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Crisis
Match8 May 2027
The wait goes on for Progreso
10 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.
Match10 May 2027
Progreso are in real trouble now
Position 15, 9 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad10 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Oliva 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.
Squad10 May 2027
A falling-out at Progreso
Juan Sebastián Rivero and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match8 May 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout10 May 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.
Squad10 May 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 4 years.
The dugout10 May 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Gabriel Ferreira after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Uneasy
Match1 May 2027
No end in sight to Progreso's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Progreso has to find a result from somewhere.
Market3 May 2027
Only the photograph left for Marcos Paolini
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marcos Paolini will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Progreso the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad3 May 2027
Christian Oliva 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.
Squad3 May 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.
The dugout3 May 2027
“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.
Squad3 May 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Agustín Codagnone commits to Progreso for another 4 years.
Loan watch3 May 2027
“I did not go to Deportivo Maldonado to sit and watch. I want to come back to Progreso and fight for my place.” 6 appearances in 18 matches say the rest.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Marked 7.62 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Progreso had the best player on the pitch.
Squad3 May 2027
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Matteo Copelotti has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
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Uneasy
Match10 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Progreso
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.
Market12 Apr 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Agustín Codagnone will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Progreso the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Christian Oliva 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.
Squad12 Apr 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The medical room confirms 28 days on the sidelines for Sergio Cabrera, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
José Vanetta gets it from the manager
“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.
Match10 Apr 2027
Progreso caught on 93 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Miramar Misiones scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
7.90, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Progreso had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Ayrton Cougo is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Uneasy
Match17 Mar 2027
Progreso bow out of the cup
Deutscher FK go through and Progreso go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match20 Mar 2027
No end in sight to Progreso's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Progreso has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Christian Oliva 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 13 actions, 7.02, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Gonzalo Silva 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 dugout22 Mar 2027
“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.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Nobody left the Progreso dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. 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
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Match13 Mar 2027
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Agustín Ocampo will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Progreso escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Up for the corner, and Bruno Veglio delivers — 7.66
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Bruno Veglio scored, was marked 7.66, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market15 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Progreso is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad15 Mar 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.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Progreso
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marco Saravia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad15 Mar 2027
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Sebastián Rivero, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Progreso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Facundo de León: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Progreso have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market15 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Progreso is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Christian Oliva 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.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Progreso
4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Agustín Ocampo, and the manager let it.
Market15 Feb 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sergio Cabrera is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market15 Feb 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Brian Morales is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market15 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eduardo Pellistri has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gonzalo Silva
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Progreso will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market18 Jan 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Progreso they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Oliva 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Progreso asked and Racing Club said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad18 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Facundo de León
“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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Agustín Pinheiro is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Adrián Colombino is on it.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
57 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Progreso lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Progreso will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Uruguay Montevideo had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Progreso had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Progreso
Emiliano Álvarez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market4 Jan 2027
14 games and 8 goals away from here, and a man the manager did not have last summer. The loan did what loans are supposed to do and almost never do.
Market4 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Progreso will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
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.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
73 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Progreso lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Progreso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market21 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Los Halcones waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Progreso is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market21 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market21 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Progreso is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Santino Bruschi is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Cerrito wanted more than $130.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Emiliano Álvarez 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.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
Adrián Colombino damages knee ligaments — 80 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 80 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
Albion wanted more than $450.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Progreso
Gonzalo Silva and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Progreso
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Agustín Pinheiro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolás Fernández, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Vélez: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.