The 12 de Junio Herald
Match12 Sep 2026
12 de Junio taken apart
0‑3 to Tacuary, 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
8 saves: Diego Aranda was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to 12 de Junio's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at 12 de Junio has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Adrián Mereles did the work nobody counts — 6.43
12 combined actions and 6.43. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Market14 Sep 2026
12 de Junio promote Luis Sanabria from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luis Sanabria has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Carlos Cubas joins the 12 de Junio first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Carlos Cubas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Fulvio Duarte 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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Doors closed at 12 de Junio
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Santiago Fernandez left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- Squad Victor Benitez has taken the shirt
- The dugout Carlos Quiñónez left out for tactical reasons at 12 de Junio
- Player ratings Rodrigo Ramírez runs at them all day