Tomás Barbero

Goalkeeper - Defensores Unidos
16 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Tomás Barbero

22 Edition

The Defensores Unidos Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Kevin Redondo asks to leave Defensores Unidos

“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

Patronato come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Defensores Unidos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tomás Barbero: 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.” Defensores Unidos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Francisco Di Franco 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 Defensores Unidos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

404% of the income goes out in wages at Defensores Unidos

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.

Squad

Defensores Unidos lose Nicolas Castillo

47 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

Back issues
17 Edition

The Defensores Unidos Herald

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Defensores Unidos

Martín Giménez 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

No hiding place for Matías Rapetti

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

Squad

Eric González 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 Eric González trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief