Javier Ortíz

Central Midfielder - Barranquilla
20 Feb 2027
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Marked for Javier Ortíz

29 Edition

The Barranquilla Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match13 Feb 2027

Real Santander punish Barranquilla for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Jordan Barrera will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Barranquilla escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Market15 Feb 2027

Barranquilla say no — this time

The offer from Fakel for Joel Canchimbo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings15 Feb 2027

No sign of nerves from Jordan Barrera at 20 — 8.40

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jordan Barrera did not need any: 8.40, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings15 Feb 2027

Ebaldo Pérez beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad15 Feb 2027

José Luis Caicedo in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Barranquilla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

No hiding place for Javier Ortíz

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Javier Ortíz, and the manager let it.

Match13 Feb 2027

Jordan Barrera rescues a point for Barranquilla

It needed Jordan Barrera to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Real Santander, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Johan Perez chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.

Squad15 Feb 2027

A Barranquilla teenager takes the young player award

Jordan Barrera is 20, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Barranquilla Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Oct 2026

Daniel Castillo breaks a bone — 32 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market19 Oct 2026

Howell Mena 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 Barranquilla can pretend not to have heard.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Barranquilla

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

Squad19 Oct 2026

Javier Ortíz pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

José Luis Caicedo knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and José Luis Caicedo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

When it matters, Jhoynner Lozano 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.

In brief

11 Edition

The Barranquilla Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Daniel Castillo out for 39 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Barranquilla will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Barranquilla

José Luis Caicedo 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 dugout12 Oct 2026

Javier Ortíz 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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Barranquilla Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Oct 2026

Daniel Castillo breaks a bone — 46 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market5 Oct 2026

Only the photograph left for Marlon Carabali

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marlon Carabali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Barranquilla the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Barranquilla

José Luis Caicedo 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.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

182% of the income goes out in wages at Barranquilla

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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Jhon Navia 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 dugout5 Oct 2026

Javier Ortíz 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.

In brief