The Cerro Post
Squad15 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mariano Nichele
78 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cerro lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Pablo Nongoy runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. 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
Alejo Macelli 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
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Cerro
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad15 Feb 2027
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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Facundo Olivera steps up from the Cerro academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Facundo Olivera 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.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for Cerro against Cerro Largo
- Squad The manager makes an example of Nahuel Soria
- Boardroom Cerro spend it where nobody looks