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Steady
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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Facundo Butti 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 can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Axel Méndez: 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Facundo Butti has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cerro they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market7 Dec 2026
Emanuel Carlos is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Cerro has been clear about where Emanuel Carlos stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Augusto Cambón
“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.
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Steady
Match6 Nov 2026
14 unbeaten for Cerro
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation Cerro did not have in the autumn.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Augusto Cambón: 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.
Market9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Alejo Macelli
“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.
Match6 Nov 2026
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Pablo Nongoy finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Cerro have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Alejo Macelli 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.
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Steady
Match18 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Cerro
The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Emiliano Sosa will call it something else in private.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
Match18 Sep 2026
Cerro and Vitória take a point apiece
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad21 Sep 2026
At 36 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Cerro are won quietly and lost loudly.
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Match26 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Cerro
A 1-0 win over Wanderers, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market31 Aug 2026
Alejo Macelli 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 can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match29 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten Cerro
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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.
Match29 Aug 2026
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jairo Amaro 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 Cerro, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Cerro have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad31 Aug 2026
At 27 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Cerro have a decision that made itself.