Borys Barone

Attacking Midfielder (R) - La Luz
31 Aug 2028
Thursday
Process

Marked for Borys Barone

74 Edition

The Cerro Largo Post

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Gustavo Viera hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cerro Largo can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Facundo da Costa

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Facundo da Costa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cerro Largo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Federico Sellecchia 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.

Market

Business is business: Borys Barone goes

La Luz paid $91.0K and Cerro Largo took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Mateo Monserrat in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cerro Largo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Nicolás Rossi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nicolás Rossi commits to Cerro Largo for another 4 years.

In brief

Back issues
74 Edition

The La Luz Post

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gonzalo Vega

43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. La Luz lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The terraces

The mood at La Luz has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the La Luz boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Match

La Luz sink to position 15

20 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Tadeo Aguiar asks to leave La Luz

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at La Luz

Facundo Sosa 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.

In brief

  • The terraces La Luz spend $91.0K on the signing the town wanted
  • Squad 5 new faces, and La Luz are still learning each other
  • Squad Fausto Rivero signs on for more
  • Market Borys Barone brings the grey hairs La Luz lacked
47 Edition

The Cerro Largo Post

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Pedro González breaks a bone — 69 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 69 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Borys Barone puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Cerro Largo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Cerro Largo get their man

The chase for Andrés Romero ended with $260.0K changing hands and Albion out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Squad

Sebastián Assis in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cerro Largo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Cerro Largo sign Tomás Cantera for $150.0K

The paperwork is done: Tomás Cantera joins from Defensor Sporting in a deal worth $150.0K. Now comes the harder part.

The terraces

$260.0K for Andrés Romero, and Cerro Largo supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Andrés Romero from Albion for $260.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad

Words at Cerro Largo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Sellecchia 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.

Player ratings

Maximiliano Añasco in the eights

A performance of 9.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Racing take the points off Cerro Largo

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

24 Edition

The Cerro Largo Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Sebastián Assis damages knee ligaments — 70 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 70 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Juan Moreno in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cerro Largo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Cerro Largo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Correa 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

21 Edition

The Cerro Largo Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Sebastián Assis damages knee ligaments — 93 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 93 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The terraces

Cerro Largo sell a favourite for $540.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Lukas González was one of the reasons people came, and $540.0K does not replace that by itself.

Market

Business is business: Lukas González goes

River Plate paid $540.0K and Cerro Largo took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Tobías Modlin gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Tobías Modlin has just signed for Cerro Largo, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Lucas Correa 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Facundo da Costa

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo da Costa, and the manager let it.

In brief