From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market11 Oct 2027
Nery Bareiro hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what 12 de Octubre can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alan Paredes and 12 de Octubre agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom11 Oct 2027
10 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.
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Crisis
Match6 Sep 2027
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at 12 de Octubre
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market6 Sep 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
$2.2M taken back off the 12 de Octubre table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 35 with 0 appearances behind him, and 12 de Octubre have to plan for both answers.
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Uneasy
Market26 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Loan watch26 Jul 2027
“I did not go to River Plate to sit and watch. I want to come back to 12 de Octubre and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 29 matches say the rest.
Market26 Jul 2027
The window shut and Rolando Villagra is still in the building
12 de Octubre spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
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Crisis
Match26 Jun 2027
No end in sight to 12 de Octubre's wait for a win
16 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at 12 de Octubre has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom28 Jun 2027
Pressure builds in the 12 de Octubre boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market28 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Jun 2027
José Miers 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.
Loan watch28 Jun 2027
“I did not go to River Plate to sit and watch. I want to come back to 12 de Octubre and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
Squad28 Jun 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at 12 de Octubre pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
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Uneasy
Match17 May 2027
Position 12, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match15 May 2027
9 matches without a win for 12 de Octubre
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around 12 de Octubre are no longer polite ones.
Market17 May 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad17 May 2027
The manager makes an example of José Benítez
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad17 May 2027
Jeferson asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Match15 May 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. River Plate will be the happier side with the point.
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Uneasy
Market12 Apr 2027
Franco Bigo hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what 12 de Octubre can pretend not to have heard.
Match10 Apr 2027
No end in sight to 12 de Octubre's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at 12 de Octubre has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Oscar Coronel
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Crisis
Match22 Mar 2027
4 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market22 Mar 2027
Marcelo Ríos hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what 12 de Octubre can pretend not to have heard.
Match20 Mar 2027
1-3 to Cerro Porteno, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Crisis
Match27 Feb 2027
5 matches without a win for 12 de Octubre
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around 12 de Octubre are no longer polite ones.
Match27 Feb 2027
0-1 to River Plate, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Marcelo Ríos 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.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Oscar Coronel
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match13 Feb 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad15 Feb 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. 12 de Octubre have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Marcelo Ríos asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
The press cannot get enough of Derlis Martínez
Praise is not points and never has been. It is, however, the fastest way for a valuation to move, and everybody in the game reads the same pages.
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Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” José Miers commits to 12 de Octubre for another 3 years.
Market28 Dec 2026
The paperwork is done: Andi Vidal joins from Sportivo Luqueno in a deal worth $250.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Market28 Dec 2026
The paperwork is done: Marcelo Ríos joins from Nacional in a deal worth $100.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 170% of everything 12 de Octubre earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 33 days on the sidelines for Blas Escobar, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.