The Artigas Chronicle
Squad5 Oct 2026
The knee: Agustin Garcia out for 25 days
25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Artigas lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Diego Ftacla signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Diego Ftacla commits to Artigas for another 1 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Artigas
Rodrigo Pastorini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Franco Martínez 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 96% of the Artigas income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Market5 Oct 2026
Artigas bring in an old head
Rodrigo Cabrera is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Deyvin Maciera
“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 dugout5 Oct 2026
A door opens for Rodrigo Pastorini
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market5 Oct 2026
Camilo Núñez joins Artigas on a free
No fee and no drama: Camilo Núñez has signed at Artigas, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
In brief
- The dugout Federico Viera knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Luiz keeps his manager's vote