Facundo da Costa

Striker - Cerro Largo
18 Aug 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Facundo da Costa

3 Edition

The Cerro Largo Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cerro Largo march on in the cup

Colon are out and Cerro Largo go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad

9 saves: Washington Aguerre was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

Tempers go at Cerro Largo

Sebastián Assis 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alfonso de Luca

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces

One of their own: Facundo da Costa

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Axel Prado

Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Marcelo Silva

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Facundo da Costa

7.84, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Cerro Largo had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad

Diego Daguerre 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