The Barracas Central Gazette
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Facundo Bruera scores twice — 8.84
Two goals and a mark of 8.84 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Barracas Central
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fernando Tobio was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Sep 2026
Facundo Bruera sends Barracas Central past River Plate
It finished 2‑1, and it was Facundo Bruera’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Barracas Central.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Enzo Taborda 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 Barracas Central this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Barracas Central are still strangers to each other
21 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Joaquín Morales, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Facundo Bruera named player of the week
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Facundo Bruera has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Fernando Tobio does not fit this one
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Manuel Duarte 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 Barracas Central, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Lucas Gamba
- The dugout When it matters, Alex Juárez plays
- Player ratings Lucas Gamba was unplayable