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The Cerro Largo Post

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad9 Apr 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sebastián Assis

36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cerro Largo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad9 Apr 2029

9 saves: Pedro González 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.

Market9 Apr 2029

Only the photograph left for Pedro González

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Pedro González will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cerro Largo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market9 Apr 2029

Román Gutiérrez asks to leave Cerro Largo

“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 Apr 2029

A falling-out at Cerro Largo

Pedro González and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad9 Apr 2029

Baltasar Barcia 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.

Match7 Apr 2029

Defensor Sporting take the points off Cerro Largo

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout9 Apr 2029

Cristian Da Silva answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Player ratings9 Apr 2029

Tomás Valentukonis was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

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The Cerro Largo Post

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad5 Jun 2028

The knee: Federico Pintado out for 52 days

52 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cerro Largo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match5 Jun 2028

Cerro Largo up to position 2

31 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Match3 Jun 2028

Cerro Largo cannot stop winning

7 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Transfer targets5 Jun 2028

An offer of $2.1M for Nicolás Ferreira

Cerro Largo have gone to Wanderers with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

The dugout5 Jun 2028

Faustino Choca keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cerro Largo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets5 Jun 2028

An offer of $160.0K for Jean Martínez

Cerro Largo have gone to Rentistas with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Tempers go at Cerro Largo

Raúl Chamorro 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.

Transfer targets5 Jun 2028

Door shut on Juan Crisafi

Cerro Largo asked and La Luz said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Player ratings5 Jun 2028

Gonzalo Gamarra shuts the door

Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief

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The Cerro Largo Post

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Nov 2027

Words exchanged at Cerro Largo

Pedro González 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.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Words at Cerro Largo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastián Assis 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.

The dugout15 Nov 2027

Leonardo Amaral 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.

In brief