The Portuguesa Gazette
Market14 Sep 2026
Héber García is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Portuguesa is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Portuguesa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Óscar González 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Portuguesa
Lautaro Lovazzano and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Wilfredo Peña has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Portuguesa 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Jonathan Cañete question follows Portuguesa around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jonathan Cañete’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market14 Sep 2026
Talks stall between Portuguesa and Héber García
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Jonathan Cañete
- The dugout José Calzadilla knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Darwin Gonzalez is out on the grass again