The Portuguesa Gazette
Market10 Aug 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Héber García has agreed to leave Portuguesa for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jonathan Cañete 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 Portuguesa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Alejandro Osorio steps up from the Portuguesa academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alejandro Osorio has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Portuguesa promote Juan Murillo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Juan Murillo 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: Cristian Rondon joins the Portuguesa first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cristian Rondon 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
Too much change too quickly at Portuguesa
18 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Diego Castillo is a square peg at Portuguesa
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Héber García gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Squad Words at Portuguesa training over how hard people work
- The dugout Lautaro Lovazzano knocks on the manager's door