Marked for Jonathan dos Santos
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad6 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match4 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Progreso
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.94 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Progreso may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market6 Sep 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad6 Sep 2027
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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Agustín Pinheiro 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.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
The cruellest goal, and it is Federico López's
A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Progreso will not try tonight.
Match4 Sep 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Juventud leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Market30 Aug 2027
Bruno Buero hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Progreso can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Progreso may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match28 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Progreso
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Pinheiro is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match28 Aug 2027
Progreso cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Kleyber Cuesta
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
17 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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Crisis
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Progreso
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad23 Aug 2027
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match21 Aug 2027
0‑1 to Cerro Largo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad23 Aug 2027
10 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Fabricio Fernández 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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
An afternoon Facundo Kidd will want back
Marked 5.66. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Marked 5.76. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Crisis
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Pinheiro is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“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.
Match14 Aug 2027
A bad afternoon for Progreso against Cerro
0‑1 to Cerro, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Gonzalo Silva was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
The spotlight tightens on Felipe Longo
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
11 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
5.75. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
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Steady
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Facundo de León was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Agustín Pinheiro 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.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Ninety minutes of Nicolás Fernández at his very best
Marked 8.34. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Progreso.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Agustín Codagnone commits to Progreso for another 4 years.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
4.10. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
The terraces9 Aug 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Squad2 Aug 2027
Agustín Pinheiro was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match31 Jul 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Viera is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Juan Sebastián Rivero has come out of that comparison in the side, and Progreso have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Upbeat
Market26 Jul 2027
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Kleyber Cuesta reports back to Progreso with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad26 Jul 2027
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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Agustín Pinheiro 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.
Match24 Jul 2027
Central Espanol made Progreso work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Getting past Felipe Longo has become the hardest job in the division
10 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Jul 2027
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Pinheiro is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match17 Jul 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Nicolás Fernández’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Progreso.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Agustín Paz 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Progreso will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Marked 8.12 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Crisis
Match10 Jul 2027
Progreso throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Racing the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Progreso will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.23 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad12 Jul 2027
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.
Match10 Jul 2027
Racing left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Andueza, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Fabricio Fernández 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
9 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.
The terraces12 Jul 2027
Everybody has an opinion about José Vanetta
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
An afternoon Ayrton Cougo will want back
Marked 4.53. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Steady
Squad5 Jul 2027
Octavio Perdomo: 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.
The terraces5 Jul 2027
Progreso sell a favourite for $1.4M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Matteo Copelotti was one of the reasons people came, and $1.4M does not replace that by itself.
Market5 Jul 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Agustín Pinheiro wants continental football; whether Progreso can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Market5 Jul 2027
Colo-Colo pay $1.4M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Pinheiro is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market5 Jul 2027
The name of Lautaro Fernández has come up in conversations Progreso were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo de León, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Marked 7.39 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Progreso had the best player on the pitch.
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Steady
Squad28 Jun 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market28 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Progreso can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Jun 2027
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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Agustín Pinheiro 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.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Jun 2027
Montevideo City Torque left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market28 Jun 2027
Colo-Colo are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Progreso will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Ayrton Cougo 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.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
A mark of 5.23 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Jun 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 27 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market21 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Agustín Pinheiro was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match19 Jun 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Matteo Copelotti. 2‑0 against Danubio, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Ninety minutes of Nicolás Fernández at his very best
Marked 8.58. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Progreso.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabricio Fernández is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fabricio Fernández, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Squad14 Jun 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 32 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A one-man rearguard from Felipe Longo
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Agustín Pinheiro 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Facundo de León was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
14 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Market14 Jun 2027
The shop window has Gastón Faber in it
Progreso have let the market know Gastón Faber can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Jun 2027
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Progreso, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Pinheiro is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces7 Jun 2027
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Agustín Paz
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market7 Jun 2027
The name of Federico Ruiz has come up in conversations Progreso were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Uneasy
Squad31 May 2027
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 May 2027
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.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Ninety minutes of Nicolás Fernández at his very best
Marked 8.94. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Progreso.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Ninety minutes of Federico Andueza at his very best
Marked 8.88. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Progreso.
Match29 May 2027
It finished 2‑0, and it was Nicolás Fernández’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Progreso.
Squad31 May 2027
Fabricio Fernández 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.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 May 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings31 May 2027
11 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Crisis
Squad24 May 2027
54 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match22 May 2027
The wait goes on for Progreso
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad24 May 2027
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Pinheiro is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match22 May 2027
0‑1 to Juventud, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Squad17 May 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 62 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match15 May 2027
5 matches without a win for Progreso
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Progreso are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 May 2027
Agustín Pinheiro 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.
Squad17 May 2027
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.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 May 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Squad10 May 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 69 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match8 May 2027
4 matches without a win for Progreso
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Progreso are no longer polite ones.
Squad10 May 2027
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of José Vanetta
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabricio Fernández is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Squad3 May 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 76 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market3 May 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad3 May 2027
Agustín Pinheiro 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Facundo de León was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match1 May 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Agustín Paz
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Crisis
Squad26 Apr 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 83 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match24 Apr 2027
Beaten 0‑3 by Defensor Sporting, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Federico Ruiz: 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Pinheiro is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Fabricio Fernández was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces26 Apr 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Agustín Paz
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
An afternoon José Vanetta will want back
Marked 5.25. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Crisis
Squad19 Apr 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 91 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match17 Apr 2027
1‑2 to Nacional, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Steady
Squad12 Apr 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 98 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad12 Apr 2027
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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Agustín Pinheiro 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was José Vanetta’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Progreso.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Agustín Requena
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
The afternoon belonged to José Vanetta
A mark of 7.88, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Apr 2027
106 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match3 Apr 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Matteo Copelotti’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Progreso.
The terraces5 Apr 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Matteo Copelotti has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Agustín Paz 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.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
A performance of 8.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market5 Apr 2027
Santiago Viera is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Progreso has been clear about where Santiago Viera stands, which is more than many ever get.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Squad29 Mar 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 114 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match27 Mar 2027
No end in sight to Progreso's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Progreso has to find a result from somewhere.
Match27 Mar 2027
The goals have deserted Progreso
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Progreso can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Iván Cartés was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“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.
Match27 Mar 2027
Racing left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Fabricio Fernández 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.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Progreso needed to.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Mar 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 121 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match17 Mar 2027
The small margins put Progreso out
Out, 0‑0 to Deportivo Maldonado, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Felipe Longo is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Felipe Longo: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match20 Mar 2027
Still nobody has beaten Progreso
The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Adrián Colombino: 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
No end in sight to Progreso's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Progreso has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match20 Mar 2027
The goals have deserted Progreso
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Progreso can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Squad15 Mar 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 130 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match13 Mar 2027
Still nobody has beaten Progreso
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad15 Mar 2027
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.
The terraces15 Mar 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Felipe Longo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of José Vanetta
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Gianfranco Trasante 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.
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Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
138 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Felipe Longo: 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jonathan dos Santos commits to Progreso for another 2 years.
Match6 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, Progreso do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Agustín Pinheiro was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match6 Mar 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The terraces8 Mar 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Agustín Paz
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
An afternoon Agustín Paz will want back
Marked 5.48. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Upbeat
Market1 Mar 2027
Iván Cartés hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Progreso can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Mar 2027
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.
Match27 Feb 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Progreso did not have in the autumn.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Agustín Pinheiro 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Agustín Requena
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Agustín Paz
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Marked 8.30 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianfranco Trasante is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Progreso deserved better, and so did he.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Too much change too quickly at Progreso
5 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.
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Steady
Squad15 Feb 2027
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.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
5 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.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Facundo de León has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“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.
Market15 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bruno Ramirez 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jorge Diaz 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Federico Lopez 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bruno Da Silva 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.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Facundo de León was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.32. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Ayrton Cougo 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Iván Cartés 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.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Octavio Perdomo out for 15 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Progreso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Agustín Pinheiro 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.
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Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Octavio Perdomo out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Progreso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market11 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Progreso, and it is not being withdrawn.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 34 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market4 Jan 2027
Progreso say no — this time
The offer from Atenas for Federico Ruiz was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Felipe Longo is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 41 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Octavio Perdomo out for 40 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Progreso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market28 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Progreso, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market28 Dec 2026
The chase for Faustino Fernández ended with $110.0K changing hands and Colon out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ayrton Cougo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Octavio Perdomo out for 47 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Progreso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market21 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 57 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Octavio Perdomo out for 54 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Progreso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A move Octavio Perdomo 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. Octavio Perdomo is living that version at Progreso, and it tends to show in the first month.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
65 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Progreso can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ayrton Cougo 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.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 73 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ayrton Cougo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Iván Cartés
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 80 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ayrton Cougo 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Fabricio Fernández 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.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 89 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ayrton Cougo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
97 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ayrton Cougo 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Gianfranco Trasante 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.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
104 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Iván Cartés 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.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 48 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ayrton Cougo 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.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
72 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ayrton Cougo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ayrton Cougo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market7 Sep 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Agustín Requena has his answer from Progreso; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was José Vanetta’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Progreso.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Facundo Molina in trouble away from the ground
Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.95 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Agustín Paz’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Progreso.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabricio Fernández is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match22 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Progreso
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Agustín Paz asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
Progreso say no — this time
The offer from Slavia Sofia for Jonathan dos Santos was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 36 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Progreso have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Agustín Paz commits to Progreso for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jonathan dos Santos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabricio Fernández is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match1 Aug 2026
Cerro left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Fabricio Fernández has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Progreso.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.