BUENOS AIRES, January 30, 2026 – Renowned sports journalist Jorge Hernán Cereghetti, popularly known as Hernán Ceres, has died.
For 17 years, from 1981 to 1997, he presided over the Buenos Aires Sports Journalists Circle. He then presided over the Court of Honor for several terms.
As a founder of the Pan American Sports Press Association, along with his great Venezuelan colleague Abelardo Raidi, he restructured the organization, giving rise to the Federation of Sports Journalists of the Americas (FEPEDA), now AIPS America. He was a member of AIPS and vice president alongside Canadian George Gross, both elected at the 60th Congress in Oviedo in 1997. In 2001, in Toronto, he was elected by the Continental Section as the representative for the Americas on the Executive Committee, a position he held from 2001 to 2005.
In 1998, at the Congress in Montevideo, he was elected first vice president of FEPEDA, when Dr. Juan Facuse Heresi of Chile, with whom he shared not only his profession but also a deep friendship, was elected as president.
Hernán was born on May 1, 1932. His father was Uruguayan, from Soriano.
He began his career in 1958 at the newspaper Crítica. He was a sports journalist in the newsrooms of Noticias Gráficas, El Nacional, Correo de la Tarde, Mundo Deportivo, and Goles. For 32 years, he was part of the Sports section of the newspaper Clarín. In 1961 he debuted on Radio El Mundo, where he worked for 15 years. He provided football commentary on programmes for Radio Belgrano, Radio Splendid, Radio Excelsior, and Radio Argentina.
Alongside being a contributor on general interest topics for the magazine Todo es Historia, he was also the Institutional Director of the Vicente López School of Sports Journalism, a branch of the Buenos Aires Journalists’ Circle School, for several years.
He was President of the Grand Jury for the Konex Awards in 1990 and a Jury member for the Konex Awards in 1980, 1987, 2000, and 2010. In recent years, he hosted a Sunday programme of tangos and football anecdotes called “Entre memorias y olvido” (Between Memories and Oblivion), the same title as his book of football anecdotes and stories, which he wrote with exceptional skill.
Almost two years ago, he published “Memoirs of a Journalist,” where he recounts all his anecdotes from the various football tournaments he attended, covering his beloved River Plate, as well as the two occasions he witnessed his national team, Argentina, become world champions in 1978 and 1986. Charming, categorical, observant, obstinate, sometimes stubborn, and argumentative, but above all, direct. He was a loyal and respectable friend. He used the following motto to describe sports journalists’ organizations, our beloved Circles: “Great works are dreamed up by saintly madmen, carried out by born fighters, benefited by the happily sane, and criticized by the chronically useless.” We wrote it on a poster, and it hung for years on the wall of the CPDU at its headquarters on Río Negro Street. Just in case, he clarified: “Look, it’s not mine, listen to me, it’s anonymous, but it’s a great truth,” he said.
He was 93 years old. His health had been declining for some time, and his energy was slowly fading. He was kept informed of everything by his son, who was always by his side. He had planned to visit him in early February, wanting to see him in Buenos Aires. It was not to be. He died yesterday afternoon, the 29th, in the January heat, in the capital, in Vicente López, his lifelong Buenos Aires neighborhood.
May you rest in peace, dear friend. Thank you for everything. I am so glad to have known you. I will stop by a library to read one of the books you loved to look at, and that way I’ll remember you.
To his son Hernán, his grandchildren, and his daughter-in-law, who was like a daughter to him, my deepest condolences, and a warm embrace.
Farewell, Professor!
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