Cerro U20

8 Aug 2026
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Process
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The Cerro Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Cerro taken apart

0‑3 to Progreso, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

A move Nicolás Guirin would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Nicolás Guirin is living that version at Cerro, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

6 saves: Diego Capdevila was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

Alejo Macelli signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alejo Macelli and Cerro agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Cerro

Nahuel Arena 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.

The dugout

Diego Capdevila 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.

Player ratings

Nahuel Sena ran the middle of the pitch — 6.58

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 6.58, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Cerro 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.

Market

49 months and counting on Alejo Macelli

Still no offer on the table, and Alejo Macelli’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief