Marked for Ignacio Yepez
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Cerrito
Francisco Casanova and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Cerrito
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Viera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Cerrito are still strangers to each other
26 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Cerrito
0‑1 against Cerro, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Francisco Casanova 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Cerrito
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Viera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Ivan Hernandez to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Aug 2026
Cerrito have made Santiago Ruiz available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market17 Aug 2026
5 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Cerrito money.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Cerrito
Francisco Casanova and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Cerrito against La Luz
1‑2 to La Luz, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Diego Suarez 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andres Martinez 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Bentancur 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcelo Da Silva is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
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Crisis
Match1 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Cerrito
A 0‑3 beating by Oriental was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ignacio Yepez and Cerrito agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Cerrito
Jonathan Ferrari and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Santiago Viera falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Cerrito dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Santiago Viera’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Cerrito
26 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Ivan Hernandez to a room that had heard them before.