Renzo Lescano

Defensive Midfielder - Artigas
27 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Renzo Lescano

16 Edition

The Artigas Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Aaron Branca damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Artigas

Rodrigo Pastorini 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.

Squad

Words at Artigas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franco Martínez 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Maximiliano Freitas

“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.

Squad

No place for Renzo Lescano in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Artigas are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market

The clock does Octavio Pereira’s negotiating for him

2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Artigas could ask drops and the wages Octavio Pereira can ask rise.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Artigas Chronicle

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Aaron Branca damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.

Squad

Rodrigo Pastorini 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.

Squad

Diego Ftacla 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Artigas

10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Octavio Pereira knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Artigas, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Still no ink between Artigas and Facundo Coello

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Artigas, another week without a signature from Facundo Coello.

In brief