Ivan Lopez

Goalkeeper - Cerro U18
6 Feb 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ivan Lopez

51 Edition

The Cerro Post

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Diego Capdevila 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Cerro

Alejo Macelli 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.

Transfer targets

Cerro rebuffed over Facundo Tancredi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Basanez have kept their man, and Cerro go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Enzo Taborda the difference as Cerro beat Deportivo Maldonado

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Enzo Taborda. 2‑0 against Deportivo Maldonado, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Cerro count the cost of losing Rodrigo Mederos

63 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Ivan Lopez out for 24 days

The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Ivan Lopez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

Enzo Taborda was the difference for Cerro

Marked 7.95. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad

A row about effort at Cerro

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gustavo Atencio was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Cerro try to borrow Luiz Araújo

Cruzeiro have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

Back issues
47 Edition

The Cerro Post

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Santiago Colombatti out for 36 days

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

Match

Chastening afternoon for Cerro

A 0‑3 beating by Boston River was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

The dugout

Gustavo Atencio says Cerro went back on their word

“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.

Transfer targets

Cerro make their move for Juan Pablo Patiño

$1.2M on the table at Nacional. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Boardroom

Cerro go back to the board over Vitinho

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $45.0K — a club that wants Vitinho enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Cerro make their move for Vitinho

$42.0K on the table at River Plate. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Cerro sell Mariano Nichele for $440.0K

Mariano Nichele has left for Progreso in a $440.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Rodrigo Rey

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Cerro

Alejandro Severo 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Cerro Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Cristian Barros out for 43 days

The medical room confirms 43 days on the sidelines for Cristian Barros, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

A falling-out at Cerro

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

Match

Alejandro Severo sends Cerro past Progreso

It finished 2‑1, and it was Alejandro Severo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cerro.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Augusto Cambón

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Market

One of our own: Franco Cabrera joins the Cerro first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Franco Cabrera is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Martin Lopez steps up from the Cerro academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Martin Lopez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Ivan Lopez steps up from the Cerro academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Lopez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Cerro promote Marcelo Acosta from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcelo Acosta 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.

Squad

Cerro are still strangers to each other

14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief