Ivan Gamarra

Goalkeeper - 12 de Junio U20
4 May 2028
Thursday
Process

Marked for Ivan Gamarra

76 Edition

The 12 de Junio Herald

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Nelson Valenzuela breaks a bone — 115 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 115 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Nelson Valenzuela 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 Junio can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Christian Martínez turns down 12 de Junio

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Libertad keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Words exchanged at 12 de Junio

Marcos Duré and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A move Tomás Martínez would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Tomás Martínez is living that version at 12 de Junio, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Ivan Gamarra out for 24 days

The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Ivan Gamarra, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Boardroom

Wages eat 86% of everything 12 de Junio 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Iván Ortiz plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Juan Villamayor knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at 12 de Junio, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

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The 12 de Junio Herald

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A falling-out at 12 de Junio

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Enrique Guedes

12 de Junio asked and Independiente CG said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at 12 de Junio

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristian García was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

12 de Junio count the cost of losing Ivan Gamarra

52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Boardroom

Wages eat 104% of everything 12 de Junio 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.

Squad

No place for Marcos Ojeda in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation 12 de Junio are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Transfer targets

12 de Junio try to borrow Christian Martínez

Libertad have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

12 de Junio ask about Alexis Fretes

A loan enquiry to Libertad: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

The ambition of Erinson Ramírez outgrows 12 de Junio early

Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.

In brief

4 Edition

The 12 de Junio Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to 12 de Junio's wait for a win

5 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Marcos Duré

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at 12 de Junio

Robert Maciel was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

The ambition of Armando Godoy outgrows 12 de Junio early

Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.

Squad

Jesús Servín is a square peg at 12 de Junio

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market

12 de Junio and Jesús Servín are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

13 new faces, and 12 de Junio are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad

Ivan Gamarra stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivan Gamarra and 12 de Junio agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

Fulvio Duarte rescues a point for 12 de Junio

It needed Fulvio Duarte to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Deportivo Capiata, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

2 Edition

The 12 de Junio Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Age has not caught Marcos Duré yet — 8.10

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.10 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Fulvio Duarte beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

12 de Junio promote Ivan Gamarra from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivan Gamarra 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.

Market

12 de Junio promote Federico Cubas from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Federico Cubas 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.

Market

Federico Enciso steps up from the 12 de Junio academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Federico Enciso 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

Roberto Santa Cruz steps up from the 12 de Junio academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Roberto Santa Cruz 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.

Squad

Fulvio Duarte stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Fulvio Duarte and 12 de Junio agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

The cruellest goal, and it is Oscar Almiron's

A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and 12 de Junio will not try tonight.

Match

Marcos Duré rescues a point for 12 de Junio

It needed Marcos Duré to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Pastoreo, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief