Marked for Thiago Dubroca
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
“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 can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Cerro
Santiago Paiva 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
Alejo Macelli has left for Boston River in a $430.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Nahuel Soria 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
The Facundo Butti conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Atenas will make the call about Facundo Butti this week. Cerro have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Thiago Dubroca commits to Cerro for another 3 years.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market21 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Jairo Amaro: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cerro have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Cristian Barros, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market21 Dec 2026
Cerro get their man
The chase for Thiago Dubroca ended with $150.0K changing hands and La Luz out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Cerro
Alejo Macelli 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Boston River are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Cerro will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market21 Dec 2026
“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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Cerro paid $150.0K and La Luz took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad21 Dec 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 La Luz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Luca Barreto and La Luz agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Diego Vicente 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Dec 2026
“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.
Market7 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at La Luz
Maximiliano Brito 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. La Luz will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 59 days on the sidelines for Alejandro Elduayen, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Diego Vicente and La Luz agree another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at La Luz
Maximiliano Brito 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mauricio Aquino, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match8 Aug 2026
It needed Facundo Sosa to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Cerrito, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Facundo Sosa finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. La Luz have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Pablo Porcile 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 La Luz, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.