The Cerro Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
The knee: Alejo Macelli out for 139 days
139 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tomás Sultani gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Tomás Sultani has just signed for Cerro, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tomás Sultani 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Alejandro Severo was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A muscle injury and 16 days out for Facundo Butti
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Cerro will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cerro promote Santiago Rios from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Santiago Rios 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
One of our own: Marcelo Rivera joins the Cerro first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcelo 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
Santiago Silva steps up from the Cerro academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Santiago Silva 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
One of our own: Matias Sanchez joins the Cerro first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matias Sanchez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Diego Capdevila
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Match Point won or two lost for Cerro?