Marked for Gianfranco Trasante
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Steady
Market11 Oct 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Progreso is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market11 Oct 2027
Progreso may not be able to give Ramiro Luna what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ramiro Luna wants continental football; whether Progreso can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emiliano Álvarez 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Ramiro Luna 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 dugout11 Oct 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.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
“I watch every Progreso game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at ENPPI runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
The goals keep arriving from Nahuel Acosta’s exile
9 goals in 26 games at Atenas — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Progreso updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Andrés Mehring knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Progreso, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
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 Sebastián Cardozo is on it.
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Steady
Market4 Oct 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.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Progreso may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Progreso
Emiliano Álvarez 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Christian Oliva 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.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Bruno Veglio
“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.
Loan watch4 Oct 2027
“I watch every Progreso game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Deportivo Maldonado runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Market13 Sep 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Progreso is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Emiliano Álvarez 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Progreso
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christian Oliva was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match11 Sep 2027
Bruno Borda scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Boston River, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Thiago Silvero's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad13 Sep 2027
8 new faces, and Progreso are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Gabriel Ferreira left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings13 Sep 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.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
26 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Upbeat
Market23 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Mauro Martín
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mauro Martín will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Progreso the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Progreso may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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.
Market23 Aug 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Progreso
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christian Oliva was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match21 Aug 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Christian Oliva. 2‑1 against Nacional, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout23 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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Ninety minutes of Christian Oliva at his very best
Marked 8.13. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Progreso.
Match21 Aug 2027
No time for Nacional to settle
The goal that put Nacional ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Progreso equalised, 1 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
In brief
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Market
Gianfranco Trasante is free to find somewhere else
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
The manager has not finished forgetting Ayrton Cougo's mistake
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Upbeat
Market16 Aug 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Paredes waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Progreso is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Progreso may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market16 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gianfranco Trasante will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Progreso the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market16 Aug 2027
Perth Glory come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Progreso did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Christian Oliva 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Ramiro Luna 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 ratings16 Aug 2027
Ayrton Cougo beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bruno Veglio, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Market19 Jul 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Progreso have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market19 Jul 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Progreso say no — this time
The offer from Bella Vista for Mauro Martín 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Progreso they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Progreso — 7.90
1 for Christian Oliva, marked 7.90, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Belgrano is saying, and nobody at Progreso is enjoying the guessing.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Progreso
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emiliano Álvarez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match17 Jul 2027
A 2‑1 win over Cerrito, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Crisis
Match5 Jul 2027
Progreso are in real trouble now
Position 15, 16 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market5 Jul 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Basanez waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Progreso is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market5 Jul 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
The paperwork is done: Agustín Pérez joins from Juventud in a deal worth $160.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Progreso
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christian Oliva was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market5 Jul 2027
A season away well spent by Mario García
18 games, 1 goals, and a squad option that has arrived without a fee attached. The interesting question at Progreso now is not whether he plays but who he displaces.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Progreso
Gonzalo Silva and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match3 Jul 2027
Liverpool Montevideo left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Crisis
Match26 Jun 2027
0‑3 to Penarol, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market28 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.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Progreso may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Albion wanted more than $180.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market28 Jun 2027
Add another name to the list: Basanez have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Gianfranco Trasante. The answer from Progreso has not changed — yet.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emiliano Álvarez 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.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Progreso asked and Juventud said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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.
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Uneasy
Match7 Jun 2027
Every point is an argument now for Progreso
Position 15 and 13 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match5 Jun 2027
At last: Progreso win one
13 matches without a win, and then this, against Racing. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Market7 Jun 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Progreso people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.20 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Progreso say no — this time
The offer from Kapaz for Lucas Viana 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.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
$730.0K on the table at Rentistas. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
The offer went to Danubio this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Racing have kept their man, and Progreso go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
Gonzalo Silva damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Emiliano Álvarez 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonzalo Silva 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 dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gianfranco Trasante, and the manager let it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nicolás Fernández trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gonzalo Silva
31 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Progreso will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market18 Jan 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Progreso they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Progreso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Oliva 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Progreso asked and Racing Club said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad18 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Facundo de León
“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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Agustín Pinheiro is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
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 Adrián Colombino is on it.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
57 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Progreso lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Progreso will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Uruguay Montevideo had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Progreso had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Progreso
Emiliano Álvarez 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market4 Jan 2027
14 games and 8 goals away from here, and a man the manager did not have last summer. The loan did what loans are supposed to do and almost never do.
Market4 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Progreso will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Adrián Colombino
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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Progreso may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Facundo de León is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Market19 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Agustín Requena will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Progreso the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Emiliano Álvarez 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Progreso
Gonzalo Silva and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.