Iván Tapia

Defensive Midfielder - Barracas Central
29 Jan 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Iván Tapia

14 Edition

The Barracas Central Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Damián Martínez

21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Barracas Central lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Barracas Central sink to position 13

8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Yonghyun Park is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Barracas Central is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match

The goals have deserted Barracas Central

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Barracas Central can tell you which week it ends in.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gastón Campi

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Barracas Central against Aldosivi

0‑1 to Aldosivi, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Barracas Central training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Tobio is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

200 appearances for Iván Tapia

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Barracas Central

Dardo Miloc 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.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Barracas Central Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Iván Tapia: 11 seasons and counting

240 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Barracas Central know exactly what they have.

Squad

Lucas Gamba stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lucas Gamba and Barracas Central agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Barracas Central

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

Squad

A row about effort at Barracas Central

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

Match

Barracas Central come up short against Banfield

Banfield left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Iván Guaraz attracts admirers

The name of Iván Guaraz has come up in conversations Barracas Central were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market

Nobody at Barracas Central has picked up the phone to Jhonatan Candia

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

The dugout

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 1‑3 Cristian Álvarez left the room before anybody could ask which.

Market

No place for Maximiliano Puig in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Maximiliano Puig has his answer from Barracas Central; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief