Marked for Miller Mareco
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Tacuary
Miller Mareco 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Tacuary
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Carlos Guerreño was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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Market23 Nov 2026
Thiago Vidal 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 Tacuary can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Miller Mareco 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Tacuary
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Carlos Guerreño was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Julio González commits to Tacuary for another 1 years.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
When it matters, Ángel Arce 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
Thiago Vidal 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 Tacuary, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Tacuary
Miller Mareco 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thiago Vidal, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Tacuary
Miller Mareco and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Carlos Guerreño falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“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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The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tacuary may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Tacuary
Miller Mareco 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Wildo Alonso has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tacuary will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Tacuary know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Tacuary
Héctor Lezcano 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 39 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Tacuary is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tacuary are still strangers to each other
22 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tacuary this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thiago Vidal, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
125% of the income goes out in wages at Tacuary
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Walter Gaona gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Walter Gaona is on it.
Market5 Oct 2026
At 38, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Miller Mareco 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Ángel Arce has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tacuary will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Wildo Alonso keeps his manager's vote
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Wildo Alonso plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Match26 Aug 2026
Tacuary bow out of the cup
Olimpia go through and Tacuary go home, 0‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
A cup embarrassment at Olimpia follows Tacuary home
0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 5 of the 20 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Ángel González’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tacuary.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miller Mareco, and the manager let it.
Match29 Aug 2026
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Ángel González in the middle of it, and Guarani de Fram unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Match12 Aug 2026
Tacuary march on in the cup
Fernando de la Mora are out and Tacuary go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match12 Aug 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Tacuary scored in the 94th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Ángel Arce delivers — 7.43
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Ángel Arce scored, was marked 7.43, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Tacuary
Miller Mareco and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Kevin Arrúa
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Walter Gaona was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.19. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Alexis Rojas
“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 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Tacuary know which stage they are at.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The formation has left Bruno Mendieta behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Tacuary will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
Richard Salinas arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Richard Salinas has, at Tacuary, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Wildo Alonso commits to Tacuary for another 2 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
The shirt still fits. Arnaldo Zárate is back at Tacuary, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market10 Aug 2026
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Miller Mareco 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Santiago Acosta is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Angel Acosta 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joel Aguilar, and the manager let it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.