Joaquín Parras

Defensive Midfielder - Independiente
17 Feb 2028
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The Independiente Herald

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad13 Dec 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Luciano Barros Ayala

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

Market13 Dec 2027

Kevin Lomónaco moves on

Palmeiras pay $20.7M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

The terraces13 Dec 2027

Independiente sell a favourite for $20.7M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Kevin Lomónaco was one of the reasons people came, and $20.7M does not replace that by itself.

Squad13 Dec 2027

Joaquín Blázquez keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Independiente may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market13 Dec 2027

Business is business: Santino Viollaz goes

Boca Juniors paid $2.2M and Independiente took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad13 Dec 2027

Tempers go at Independiente

Lautaro Millán 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.

Market13 Dec 2027

Joaquín Parras is on his way

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

Market13 Dec 2027

San Marcos de Arica watching Samuel Lucero

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Independiente have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad13 Dec 2027

Felipe Loyola 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.

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The Independiente Herald

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Nov 2027

Juan Manuel Fedorco: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Independiente have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom15 Nov 2027

Independiente to lose Joaquín Parras for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Joaquín Parras 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.

Market15 Nov 2027

Only the photograph left for Joaquín Parras

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Joaquín Parras will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Independiente the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad15 Nov 2027

When it matters, Luciano Cabral 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.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Independiente

Joaquín Parras 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.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Gabriel Ávalos 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 Gabriel Ávalos trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market15 Nov 2027

The Lautaro Millán story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Lautaro Millán signs something — a contract at Independiente or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Loan watch15 Nov 2027

Tomás Parmo keeps scoring at HJK

15 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Loan watch15 Nov 2027

Leonel Galván keeps scoring at Djurgarden

22 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief