The Cerro Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nahuel Arena in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cerro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Cerro agree a free transfer for Ian López
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Match8 Aug 2026
Penarol take the points off Cerro
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Fernando Rivera joins the Cerro first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fernando Rivera is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Rafael Godoy steps up from the Cerro academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rafael Godoy 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cerro promote Carlos Varela from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Carlos Varela 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Leonardo Ramirez steps up from the Cerro academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonardo Ramirez 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Cerro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Cruz Guasone 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
15 new faces, and Cerro are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- Squad Cerro pick somebody else ahead of Diego Capdevila
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Cristian Barros
- Player ratings Augusto Cambón changes it off the bench