The Barranquilla Gazette
Squad1 May 2028
Jordan Barrera takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match1 May 2028
Barranquilla up to position 3
26 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market1 May 2028
Jackie Muñoz 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.
Squad1 May 2028
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.
Player ratings1 May 2028
One of those days for Jordan Barrera
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.88, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match29 Apr 2028
Barranquilla find a way past Union Magdalena
Union Magdalena made Barranquilla work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces1 May 2028
The crowd has taken to Jordan Barrera
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad1 May 2028
Words at Barranquilla training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhon Navia is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings1 May 2028
Nobody could get near Joel Canchimbo
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Squad A step back for Andrés Murillo at Barranquilla
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout When it matters, José Luis Caicedo plays