Marked for Leandro Mora
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings6 May 2030
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.79 for the rest of it.
Squad6 May 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cerrito this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch6 May 2030
“I did not go to Salus to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cerrito and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Match4 May 2030
Three points for Cerrito, 2‑0 the final word against Boston River in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad6 May 2030
Francisco Casanova 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.
Player ratings6 May 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout6 May 2030
“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 dugout6 May 2030
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Diego Ramirez on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Player ratings6 May 2030
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Back issues
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Crisis
The dugout18 Feb 2030
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cerrito have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market18 Feb 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cerrito they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad18 Feb 2030
Emiliano Ancheta 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.
Match16 Feb 2030
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout18 Feb 2030
“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.
Squad18 Feb 2030
A row about effort at Cerrito
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristian González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad18 Feb 2030
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Diego Bonilla and Cerrito agree another 3 years.
The dugout18 Feb 2030
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Diego Ramirez after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Market18 Feb 2030
“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.
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Uneasy
Market11 Feb 2030
“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.
Squad11 Feb 2030
A falling-out at Cerrito
Emiliano Ancheta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom11 Feb 2030
Graduation day at Cerrito
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market11 Feb 2030
One of our own: Bruno Diaz joins the Cerrito first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bruno Diaz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Feb 2030
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Martin Rossi has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market11 Feb 2030
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bruno Olivera has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad11 Feb 2030
A row about effort at Cerrito
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ángel Llanes was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom11 Feb 2030
A promise the Cerrito board did not keep
There was a commitment, there was a date, and the date went past. Trust at a football club takes years to build and one afternoon to spend.
Loan watch11 Feb 2030
“I did not go to Salus to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cerrito and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Market3 Sep 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cerrito can pretend not to have heard.
Market3 Sep 2029
Only the photograph left for Bautista Ramos
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bautista Ramos will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cerrito the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad3 Sep 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mateo Ayres commits to Cerrito for another 4 years.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Words exchanged at Cerrito
Emiliano Ancheta 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.
Squad3 Sep 2029
A row about effort at Cerrito
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Viera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout3 Sep 2029
Carlos Rivas 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.
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Uneasy
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
It is over: Cerrito are relegated
The arithmetic ran out, and everybody could see it coming from a distance. The hard summer starts now, and next season's fixtures will be full of unfamiliar names.
Squad8 Jan 2029
80 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cerrito lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Cerrito
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Cerrito can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
Crisis meeting at Cerrito
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Squad8 Jan 2029
A move Leandro Mora would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Leandro Mora is living that version at Cerrito, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market8 Jan 2029
Emiliano Ancheta wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Cerrito hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Emiliano Ancheta 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.
Market8 Jan 2029
The deal that would have taken Luis Barbat to Cerro has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Cerrito with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.