Marked for Ignacio Yepez
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
61 days out for Thiago Aguirre after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Cerrito will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market21 Dec 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Cerrito have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Progreso have kept their man, and Cerrito go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Luciano Batista 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Cerrito have made Joaquín Avilés available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market21 Dec 2026
Axel Pérez linked with a move away
The name of Axel Pérez keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cerrito say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Somebody else’s transfer, somebody else’s headline. What it left at Cerrito is a friend gone and a player who keeps looking at the space.
Market21 Dec 2026
“He needs to be playing at a level that matches him, and we are open to conversations.” Nobody says that by accident, and nobody at Cerrito misheard it.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
68 days out for Thiago Aguirre after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Cerrito will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market14 Dec 2026
Boston River pay $250.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 53 days on the sidelines for Cristian González, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cerrito this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Ignacio Yepez asks for a word with the manager
“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.
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Steady
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 144% of the Cerrito income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cerrito this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Simón Meza is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Simón Meza has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Cerrito, another week without a signature from Owen Falconis.
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Steady
Market26 Oct 2026
Mateo Vista has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cerrito they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Luis Machado gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Cerrito training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Viera 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Cerrito
Santiago Pereira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
26 new faces, and Cerrito are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Ignacio Yepez knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Cerrito, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Cerrito
Francisco Casanova 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 183% of the Cerrito income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Squad5 Oct 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.
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Steady
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignacio Yepez, and the manager let it.
Squad14 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Axel Pérez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
The dugout7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Santiago Viera slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Santiago Viera is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Cerrito
Santiago Pereira 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Ignacio Yepez knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Cerrito, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Cerrito out
Out, 0‑3 to Cerro, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
A cup embarrassment at Cerro follows Cerrito home
0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
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.
Boardroom17 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Emiliano Olivera left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“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.
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Axel Pérez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by La Luz, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad10 Aug 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 14 actions, 6.48, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Carlos Garcia 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. Luis Garcia 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rafael Acosta 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jose Coates 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.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
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.
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.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Oriental, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.80 on the card, and the Cerrito support went home talking about one name.
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
16 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.