Marked for Mateo Klimowicz
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market19 Oct 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 The request is on a desk at Cerro Porteno, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Enzo Cabrera is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Fabricio Domínguez 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
Jorge Morel 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 Cerro Porteno can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Manuel Roffo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market5 Oct 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Robert Piris Da Motta wants continental football; whether Cerro Porteno can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fabricio Domínguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Cerro Porteno know it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Iván Ramírez moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Cerro Porteno than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Sep 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 The request is on a desk at Cerro Porteno, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 Sep 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Cerro Porteno can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Manuel Roffo 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
11 new faces, and Cerro Porteno 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateo Klimowicz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Ariel Gamarra has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Cerro Porteno will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Manuel Roffo 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Cerro Porteno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Morel 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 Sep 2026
The least glamorous thing a foreign signing ever does and the one that decides most of them. A player who can hear the shout behind him is a different footballer from one who cannot.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager comes out for Alan Soñora
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Squad
Alan Soñora is training like a man with a point to make
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 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 Cerro Porteno, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Fabricio Domínguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Luis Amarilla slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Luis Amarilla is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mateo Klimowicz 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Cerro Porteno than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Manuel Roffo story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Manuel Roffo signs something — a contract at Cerro Porteno or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Out, 1‑1 to 12 de Octubre, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Charleroi for Manuel Roffo 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Gabriel Aguayo at 21 — 8.09
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gabriel Aguayo did not need any: 8.09, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market24 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Manuel Roffo wants continental football; whether Cerro Porteno can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 21 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Fabricio Domínguez 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Cerro Porteno will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Zob Ahan for Jorge Morel 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Cerro Porteno have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Manuel Roffo 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 Cerro Porteno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mateo Klimowicz 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.