Celso Ortiz

Defensive Midfielder - Nacional
17 Feb 2027
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Marked for Celso Ortiz

18 Edition

The Nacional Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market30 Nov 2026

Santiago Rojas wants European nights

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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Nacional

Santiago Rojas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Santiago Rojas 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.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Nacional Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market16 Nov 2026

Lucas González is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nacional is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Nacional

Santiago Rojas 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

Nacional lose Celso Ortiz

16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words at Nacional training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Almeida 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 dugout16 Nov 2026

When it matters, Roberto Ramírez plays

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.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Lucas González 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.

In brief

13 Edition

The Nacional Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Nacional

Celso Ortiz 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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Too much change too quickly at Nacional

13 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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Matías Almeida 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.

In brief

6 Edition

The Nacional Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Sep 2026

The knee: Alexis Cañete out for 48 days

48 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nacional lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market7 Sep 2026

Santiago Rojas puts it in writing

“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 Nacional, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Celso Ortiz 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 Nacional this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Elías Villar out for 34 days

The medical room confirms 34 days on the sidelines for Elías Villar, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A step back for Alejandro Samudio at Nacional

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Market7 Sep 2026

Talks stall between Nacional and Lucas González

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief