Mariano Barreda

Striker - Alianza Atletico
20 Jun 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mariano Barreda

41 Edition

The Alianza Atletico Sentinel

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Alianza Atletico sink to position 10

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

Squad

Tempers go at Alianza Atletico

Germán Díaz 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.

Match

Alianza Atletico come up short against Universitario

Universitario left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Román Suárez 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.

Loan watch

Fabrizzio Franco counts the days

“I watch every Alianza Atletico game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at UTC runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Mariano Barreda 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

Back issues
40 Edition

The Alianza Atletico Sentinel

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Thiago González asks to leave Alianza Atletico

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

José Luján wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

The manager makes an example of José Luján

“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.

Squad

Anthony Gordillo 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Alianza Atletico

Mariano Barreda 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.

Loan watch

Matías Gallo wants to come home

“I did not go to UTC to sit and watch. I want to come back to Alianza Atletico and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.

In brief

28 Edition

The Alianza Atletico Sentinel

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules José Luján out for 72 days

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

Squad

José Villegas out for 24 days

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

Boardroom

Graduation day at Alianza Atletico

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Mariano Barreda 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 Alianza Atletico this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

One of our own: Luis Caceda joins the Alianza Atletico first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luis Caceda 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: Jesus Mora joins the Alianza Atletico first team

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

Market

Alianza Atletico promote Aldo Ruidiaz from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Aldo Ruidiaz 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

One of our own: Alexander Polo joins the Alianza Atletico first team

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

Player ratings

Germán Díaz runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

19 Edition

The Alianza Atletico Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Williams Guzmán breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Alianza Atletico turn down Melgar for Ariel Muñoz

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom

Alianza Atletico to lose Jesús Rossi for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jesús Rossi has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Market

Business is business: Jesús Rossi goes

Ayacucho paid $48.0K and Alianza Atletico took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Tempers go at Alianza Atletico

Mariano Barreda 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.

Squad

Anthony Gordillo 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.

In brief

13 Edition

The Alianza Atletico Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Alianza Atletico

Mariano Barreda 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.

Squad

Anthony Gordillo 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.

Squad

Stefano Fernández 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

7 Edition

The Alianza Atletico Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Alianza Atletico

Mariano Barreda 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.

Squad

Anthony Gordillo 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.

Squad

Guillermo Larios has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Alianza Atletico 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.

In brief