The Cerro Post
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian Barros
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cerro lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Cerro
Alejo Macelli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Mauro Villar 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
When it matters, Pablo da Silveira 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
Facundo Butti has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Facundo Butti has written the date down.
Market28 Sep 2026
The shop window has Martín Farías in it
Cerro have let the market know Martín Farías can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
- Squad Cristian Barros has settled at Cerro
- The dugout Ezequiel Forclaz keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Damián Suárez is training like a man with a point to make