The Nacional Sentinel
Match10 Aug 2030
Nacional tear Progreso apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Progreso, and it could have been more.
Market12 Aug 2030
Only the photograph left for Luis Mejía
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luis Mejía will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nacional the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings12 Aug 2030
Vintage Maximiliano Gómez — 8.15
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.15, and nobody on the pitch better.
The dugout12 Aug 2030
Rico Browne: 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.” Nacional have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Aug 2030
A move Robert Ergas would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Robert Ergas is living that version at Nacional, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match10 Aug 2030
Nacional cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad12 Aug 2030
Words exchanged at Nacional
Maximiliano Gómez 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.
Squad12 Aug 2030
Franco Díaz 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.
Market12 Aug 2030
Nacional promote Nicolas Ugarte from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nicolas Ugarte 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Ramon Hernandez joins the Nacional first team
- Market One of our own: Emiliano Suarez joins the Nacional first team
- Player ratings Both jobs done by Dylan Cabral — 7.04