The Progreso Post
Market11 Feb 2030
Only the photograph left for Alejandro García
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alejandro García will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Progreso the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom11 Feb 2030
Alejandro García signs for River Plate while still at Progreso
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Alejandro García has agreed terms with River Plate for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad11 Feb 2030
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.
Boardroom11 Feb 2030
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Progreso
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad11 Feb 2030
A row about effort at Progreso
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marco Saravia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market11 Feb 2030
One of our own: Mathias Jimenez joins the Progreso first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mathias Jimenez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Feb 2030
One of our own: Marcelo Castro joins the Progreso first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcelo Castro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Feb 2030
One of our own: Ivan Sanchez joins the Progreso first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Sanchez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout11 Feb 2030
Santiago Corbo gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Santiago Corbo is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Jean Lucas Severo asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Agustín Buffa gets it from the manager
- Looking ahead Santiago Corbo goes back to face River Plate