The Progreso Post
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Nicolás Fernández: 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.” Progreso have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Emiliano Álvarez was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Progreso
Ignacio Pereira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Progreso
4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match13 Feb 2027
6 unbeaten for Progreso
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Progreso did not have in the autumn.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Alexis Castro 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Luis Coates steps up from the Progreso academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luis Coates 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Progreso promote Matias Araujo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matias Araujo 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Agustin Garcia steps up from the Progreso academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Agustin Garcia 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Sergio Lopez joins the Progreso first team
- Boardroom Progreso sign off a bigger ground
- Squad Juan Sebastián Rivero has had enough of the bench