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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Joaquín Solleiro damages knee ligaments — 32 days out
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Boston River, and it could have been more.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.39 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market31 Aug 2026
Oliveirense 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.
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Progreso
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrew Teuten was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match29 Aug 2026
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Facundo de León at his very best
Marked 8.49. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Progreso.
In brief
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Player ratings
Agustín Paz was unplayable
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Gonzalo Silva
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cerro Largo ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Agustín Ocampo takes the afternoon — 8.54
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Agustín Ocampo provided it, and the 8.54 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match22 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Marco Saravia wants continental football; whether Progreso can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Progreso
Agustín Ocampo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match22 Aug 2026
Montevideo City Torque left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 Aug 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.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Progreso march on in the cup
Tacuarembo are out and Progreso go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 3-goal lead gone for Progreso
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Defensor Sporting kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Progreso will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.20, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Andrés Mehring: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.83. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Progreso, another week without a signature from Andrew Teuten.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andrew Teuten gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Andrew Teuten has just signed for Progreso, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andrew Teuten 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 terraces10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nicolas Coates is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cristian Viera is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nicolas Caceres 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Felipe Garcia has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad10 Aug 2026
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Cerro, and it could have been more.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Agustín Ocampo takes the afternoon — 8.27
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Agustín Ocampo provided it, and the 8.27 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
Breidablik 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Emiliano Álvarez and Progreso agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Agustín Ocampo 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
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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Nicolás Fernández 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
In brief
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Squad
18 new faces, and Progreso are still learning each other
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Market
Progreso and Facundo de León are talking past each other