Marked for Luis Barbat
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match24 Apr 2027
A 2-goal lead gone for Cerrito
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Bella Vista kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Cerrito will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Squad26 Apr 2027
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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match24 Apr 2027
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Gabriel Garcia after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Edilson Gimenez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad26 Apr 2027
One booking too many, and Emanuel Dall'Aglio sits out. Cerrito lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Market18 Jan 2027
Cerrito say no — this time
The offer from Villa Teresa for Ignacio Yepez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market18 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cerrito can pretend not to have heard.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Talleres have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Tiago Simoni has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Cerrito will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Luis Barbat
“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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
No place for Carlos Acuña in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Cerrito are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Upbeat
Market11 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cerrito can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Joaquín Avilés has left for Cerro Largo in a $130.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Juventud have kept their man, and Cerrito go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Franco Casuriaga, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan move for Carlos Acuña is in the works
Cerrito have made the call to Nacional. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Nobody at Cerrito will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Cerrito would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Viera
58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cerrito lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Santiago Viera: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cerrito have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Cerrito training over how hard people work
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Squad
26 new faces, and Cerrito are still learning each other
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Luis Barbat
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The dugout
Tiago Simoni has become a man the manager trusts
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Viera
72 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cerrito lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Mateo Vista
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mateo Vista will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cerrito the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Anthony Segovia is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luis Machado, and the manager let it.