Juan Iturbe

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Cerro Porteno
10 Sep 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Juan Iturbe

6 Edition

The Cerro Porteno Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Cerro Porteno through in the cup

A 1‑0 win over Libertad, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Cerro Porteno win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 104th minute. Libertad will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Market

Veracruz come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Cerro Porteno did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Gustavo Velázquez 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 Porteno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Juan Iturbe stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Juan Iturbe and Cerro Porteno agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Pablo Vegetti 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

Cerro Porteno lose Darío Espínola

44 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Pablo Vegetti

A mark of 7.35, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Market

Talks stall between Cerro Porteno and Alan Núñez

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Cerro Porteno Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Cerro Porteno march on in the cup

River Plate are out and Cerro Porteno go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings

A brace, and Juan Iturbe takes the afternoon — 8.08

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Juan Iturbe provided it, and the 8.08 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mateo Klimowicz

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Cerro Porteno

Matías Pérez 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.

Squad

Pablo Vegetti 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Tobías Portillo

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.

In brief