Facundo Valverde

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Rampla Juniors U18
15 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Facundo Valverde

2 Edition

The Rampla Juniors Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A falling-out at Rampla Juniors

Ignacio Pereira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Rampla Juniors come up short against Deportivo Maldonado

Deportivo Maldonado left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Gaston Cabrera steps up from the Rampla Juniors academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gaston Cabrera has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Facundo Valverde joins the Rampla Juniors first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Facundo Valverde is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Diego Gimenez joins the Rampla Juniors first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Diego Gimenez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Rampla Juniors promote Facundo Fernandez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Facundo Fernandez 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.

The dugout

Yamil García 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.

Squad

This league is too small for Fernando Arismendi

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Rampla Juniors will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Pablo Godoy to a room that had heard them before.

In brief