The Cerro Post
Squad10 Jan 2028
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.
Market10 Jan 2028
Huracan Buceo join the queue for Bruno Morales
Add another name to the list: Huracan Buceo have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Bruno Morales. The answer from Cerro has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Lucas Viana stays at Progreso as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Cerro will try again when the window opens; Progreso may not be selling by then.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Montevideo City Torque tell Cerro: Agustín Alaniz is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Jan 2028
One of our own: Ivan Rossi joins the Cerro first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Rossi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Jan 2028
Cerro promote Luis Morales from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luis Morales 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 Jan 2028
One of our own: Brian Alvarez joins the Cerro first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Brian Alvarez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Thiago Salischiker Rucci
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words at Cerro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Neira 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.
In brief
- Squad This league is too small for Iván López
- Squad Inti López: “I am not a substitute”
- The dugout Mariano Nichele has become a man the manager trusts