Borys Barone

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Cerro Largo
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Borys Barone

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The Cerro Largo Post

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Washington Aguerre damages knee ligaments — 58 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 58 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

Lukas González keeps Cerro Largo in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Cup progress for Cerro Largo

A 2‑1 win over Colon, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Facundo da Costa scores twice — 9.00

Two goals and a mark of 9.00 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The dugout

Axel Prado keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cerro Largo may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Elías de León, 21, steals the show — 8.03

Marked 8.03 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

A row about effort at Cerro Largo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sebastián Assis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Ihojan Pérez

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

No hiding place for Alexis Piegas

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

In brief

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24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Alexis Segovia runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Sebastián Assis 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.

Match

Cerro Largo see off River Plate

Three points for Cerro Largo, 1‑0 the final word against River Plate in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Brian Lozano takes the honours

Marked 7.91 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Cerro Largo had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

A falling-out at Cerro Largo

Borys Barone and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Nahuel Mendez, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

Enrique Almeida 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.

Looking ahead

The leaders are next for Cerro Largo

Penarol top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

Squad

The first one for Brian Lozano

Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Cerro Largo have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.

In brief