The Cerro Porteno Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
Cerro Porteno say no — this time
The offer from Szeged-Csanád GA for Freddy Noguera was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
Carlos Zárate has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cerro Porteno they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Carlos Zárate signs for River Plate while still at Cerro Porteno
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Carlos Zárate has agreed terms with River Plate for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Cerro Porteno
Manuel Roffo 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cecilio Domínguez wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Ivan Alderete joins the Cerro Porteno first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Alderete is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ariel Gamarra signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ariel Gamarra commits to Cerro Porteno for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Cerro Porteno
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Iván Morel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Harold Santiago Mosquera still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Cerro Porteno would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
In brief
- The dugout Ariel Gamarra asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Gabriel Aguayo keeps his manager's vote