The Cerro Largo Post
Squad15 Feb 2027
Facundo da Costa: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cerro Largo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Alexis Segovia runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Cerro Largo
Sebastián Assis 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.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Cerro Largo
2 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
Cerro Largo come up short against Deportivo Maldonado
Deportivo Maldonado left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Cerro Largo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Lozano 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Cerro Largo promote Ivan Rivera from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivan Rivera 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
One of our own: Diego Aguirre joins the Cerro Largo first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Diego Aguirre is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
Cerro Largo are making the ground bigger
Work is signed off on a capacity of 3902. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Federico Andrade
- Player ratings Mateo Monserrat never got going