The Progreso Post
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Ayrton Cougo
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Agustín Requena
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Agustín Requena will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Progreso the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Progreso to lose Agustín Requena for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Agustín Requena has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Emiliano Álvarez 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 Progreso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Ivan Gomez joins the Progreso first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Gomez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Progreso promote Fernando Santos from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fernando Santos 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Martin Alvarez joins the Progreso first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Martin Alvarez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
100 appearances for Agustín Pinheiro
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Progreso
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mauro Martín was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Squad Ignacio Pereira is a square peg at Progreso
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Gonzalo Silva
- The dugout Rodrigo Coates: “We have to be better”