Saúl del Cerro García (born 20 May 2004) is a Spanish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays for Mérida, on loan from

Burgos Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populous municipality of the province of Burgos. Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of th ...

. Mainly a

defensive midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. ...

, he can also play as a

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Club career

Born in

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, del Cerro was a

Burgos CF Burgos Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Burgos, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The original Burgos CF (1936), Burgos CF was dissolved in 1983 after becoming Insolven ...

youth graduate. On 23 October 2021, aged just 17, he made his senior debut with the reserves by coming on as a second-half substitute in a 0–3 Segunda División RFEF home loss against UD Logroñés B. Del Cerro made his first-team debut on 14 December 2021, replacing fellow debutant Iván Serrano late into a 0–2 away loss against

Real Zaragoza Real Zaragoza, S.A.D. (), commonly referred to as Zaragoza, is a football club based in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, that currently competes in the Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish football league system, Spanish league system. Zarag ...

in the season's

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. He scored his first senior goal on 12 February 2023, netting the B's third in a 4–3 away loss to

Ourense CF Ourense CF is a Galician football club from the city of Ourense. It was founded in 1977 as Ponte Ourense Club de Fútbol, and changed its name in 2014, after the dissolution of CD Ourense, and currently plays in , holding home games at ''Estadio ...

. Del Cerro made his

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debut on 13 January 2024, replacing

Fer Niño Fernando "Fer" Niño Rodríguez (born 24 October 2000) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Burgos CF. Club career Villarreal Niño was born in Rota, Andalusia, and joined Villarreal CF's academy in 2016 from Balón ...

late into a 1–0 home win over

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. On 8 July, he renewed his contract until 2027 and was promoted to the first team, but was loaned to

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side

Mérida AD Asociación Deportiva Mérida, Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D. is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club based in Mérida, Spain, Mérida, in the autonomous community of Extremadura. Founded in 2013 it is a successor club of ...

on 30 August.

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* * 2004 births Living people Footballers from Burgos Spanish men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Segunda División players Primera Federación players Segunda Federación players Tercera Federación players Burgos CF Promesas players Burgos CF footballers Mérida AD players 21st-century Spanish sportsmen {{Spain-footy-midfielder-stub