Marked for Omar Cassiani
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad9 Jun 2031
Fabián Correa breaks a bone — 113 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 113 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Jun 2031
16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Barranquilla lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match7 Jun 2031
0‑5 to Deportivo Cali, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match9 Jun 2031
Every point is an argument now for Barranquilla
Position 19 and 9 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad9 Jun 2031
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market9 Jun 2031
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match7 Jun 2031
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market9 Jun 2031
“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.
Match7 Jun 2031
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Barranquilla can tell you which week it ends in.
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Crisis
Squad2 Jun 2031
A fracture rules Fabián Correa out for 120 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Barranquilla will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad2 Jun 2031
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Barranquilla lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match31 May 2031
Beaten 0‑3 by Independiente Medellin, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market2 Jun 2031
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Barranquilla, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match31 May 2031
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match31 May 2031
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Barranquilla can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings2 Jun 2031
Jhon Navia beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match31 May 2031
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad2 Jun 2031
Alex Mosquera and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Crisis
Squad26 May 2031
14 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad26 May 2031
30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Barranquilla lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match24 May 2031
Chastening afternoon for Barranquilla
A 0‑8 beating by Atletico Nacional was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market26 May 2031
“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.
Market26 May 2031
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Barranquilla is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match24 May 2031
No end in sight to Barranquilla's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Barranquilla has to find a result from somewhere.
Match24 May 2031
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match24 May 2031
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Barranquilla and Atletico Nacional, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad26 May 2031
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jhon Navia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Squad19 May 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Omar Cassiani
37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Barranquilla lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings19 May 2031
Jhon Navia runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market19 May 2031
“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.
Squad19 May 2031
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.
Match17 May 2031
3 matches without a goal for Barranquilla
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad19 May 2031
Alex Mosquera 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.
Match17 May 2031
Envigado left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout19 May 2031
The manager makes an example of Jhoynner Lozano
“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.
Squad19 May 2031
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Barranquilla are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Crisis
Squad12 May 2031
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 13 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad12 May 2031
Omar Cassiani damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match7 May 2031
Junior ended it 0‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match12 May 2031
Position 19, 9 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Player ratings12 May 2031
Nobody could get near Jhon Navia
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces12 May 2031
A cup embarrassment at Junior follows Barranquilla home
0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Market12 May 2031
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Barranquilla, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market12 May 2031
Only the photograph left for Johan Brausin
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Johan Brausin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Barranquilla the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 May 2031
Fabián Correa and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Uneasy
Squad5 May 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Omar Cassiani
51 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Barranquilla lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match3 May 2031
10 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Universitario Popayan were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Market5 May 2031
“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.
Player ratings5 May 2031
Up for the corner, and Nicola Profeta delivers — 7.92
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Nicola Profeta scored, was marked 7.92, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Player ratings5 May 2031
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad5 May 2031
Jhon Navia 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.
Squad5 May 2031
Cristian Rivas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout5 May 2031
“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.
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Crisis
Squad28 Apr 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Omar Cassiani
58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Barranquilla lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Apr 2031
10 matches without a win for Barranquilla
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Barranquilla are no longer polite ones.
Market28 Apr 2031
“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.
Market28 Apr 2031
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Barranquilla they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings28 Apr 2031
Jhon Navia runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Apr 2031
Jhon Navia 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.
Match26 Apr 2031
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Apr 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Barranquilla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Apr 2031
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Apr 2031
65 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Barranquilla lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match19 Apr 2031
9 matches without a win for Barranquilla
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Barranquilla are no longer polite ones.
Market21 Apr 2031
“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.
Squad21 Apr 2031
William Mosquera 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 ratings21 Apr 2031
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout21 Apr 2031
The manager makes an example of Jhoynner Lozano
“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.
Player ratings21 Apr 2031
Marked 7.31. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Market21 Apr 2031
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Barranquilla, another week without a signature from Nicola Profeta.
The dugout21 Apr 2031
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Interim Coach chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Apr 2031
72 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Barranquilla lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match12 Apr 2031
8 matches without a win for Barranquilla
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Barranquilla are no longer polite ones.
Match14 Apr 2031
Every point is an argument now for Barranquilla
Position 18 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad14 Apr 2031
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings14 Apr 2031
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market14 Apr 2031
Johan Brausin has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Barranquilla they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market14 Apr 2031
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Barranquilla can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad14 Apr 2031
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jhon Navia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Apr 2031
A point taken on 95 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad7 Apr 2031
79 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Barranquilla lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match5 Apr 2031
No end in sight to Barranquilla's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Barranquilla has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Apr 2031
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings7 Apr 2031
Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market7 Apr 2031
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Barranquilla, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Apr 2031
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.
Match5 Apr 2031
No clean sheets in sight for Barranquilla
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match5 Apr 2031
1‑2 to Once Caldas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Apr 2031
Fabián Correa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 Mar 2031
Omar Cassiani damages knee ligaments — 86 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 86 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad31 Mar 2031
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market31 Mar 2031
“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.
Market31 Mar 2031
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Barranquilla they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match29 Mar 2031
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings31 Mar 2031
Up for the corner, and Nicola Profeta delivers — 7.87
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Nicola Profeta scored, was marked 7.87, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad31 Mar 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Barranquilla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Mar 2031
50 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.
Match29 Mar 2031
Late, late show earns Barranquilla a point
Minute 90, against Santa Fe, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
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Crisis
Squad24 Mar 2031
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad24 Mar 2031
Omar Cassiani damages knee ligaments — 93 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 93 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match22 Mar 2031
No end in sight to Barranquilla's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Barranquilla has to find a result from somewhere.
Market24 Mar 2031
“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.
Squad24 Mar 2031
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jhon Navia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match22 Mar 2031
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Barranquilla can tell you which week it ends in.
Match22 Mar 2031
0‑2 to Millonarios, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings24 Mar 2031
Jhon Navia runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Mar 2031
Darwin Torres and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Crisis
Squad17 Mar 2031
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 15 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad17 Mar 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Omar Cassiani
100 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Barranquilla lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market17 Mar 2031
Johan Brausin 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.
Market17 Mar 2031
Johan Brausin has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Barranquilla they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match15 Mar 2031
4 matches without a win for Barranquilla
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Barranquilla are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Mar 2031
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.
Squad17 Mar 2031
William Mosquera and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match15 Mar 2031
0‑2 to Deportes Tolima, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout17 Mar 2031
The manager makes an example of Jhoynner Lozano
“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.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Jhon Navia knocks on the manager's door
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Looking ahead
A reunion for Howell Mena
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 Mar 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Omar Cassiani
107 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Barranquilla lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings10 Mar 2031
Successful dribbles: 35. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market10 Mar 2031
Alex Mosquera 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.
The dugout10 Mar 2031
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Barranquilla may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad10 Mar 2031
Fabián Correa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout10 Mar 2031
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Interim Coach after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout10 Mar 2031
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Barranquilla, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout10 Mar 2031
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martín Naser, and the manager let it.
Match8 Mar 2031
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Deportivo Pasto came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings3 Mar 2031
Nobody could get near Jhon Navia
Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Mar 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Omar Cassiani
114 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Barranquilla lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market3 Mar 2031
“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.
Market3 Mar 2031
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Barranquilla they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad3 Mar 2031
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Juan Sebastián Ostos and Barranquilla agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Mar 2031
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.
Squad3 Mar 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Barranquilla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Mar 2031
Late, late show earns Barranquilla a point
Minute 87, against Leones, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
The dugout3 Mar 2031
The manager makes an example of Duván Riascos
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Feb 2031
The knee: Omar Cassiani out for 121 days
121 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Barranquilla lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings24 Feb 2031
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Feb 2031
Leyner Liñan wins it after the whistle should have gone
108 minutes played. Leyner Liñan found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and La Equidad went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings24 Feb 2031
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.49, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market24 Feb 2031
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Barranquilla, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match22 Feb 2031
Beaten 3‑5, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom24 Feb 2031
The numbers do not look good at Barranquilla
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
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Crisis
Squad17 Feb 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Omar Cassiani
128 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Barranquilla lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings17 Feb 2031
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market17 Feb 2031
“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.
Market17 Feb 2031
Johan Brausin has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Barranquilla they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match15 Feb 2031
No end in sight to Barranquilla's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Barranquilla has to find a result from somewhere.
Match15 Feb 2031
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad17 Feb 2031
Fabián Correa and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match15 Feb 2031
La Equidad left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout17 Feb 2031
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Interim Coach left the room before anybody could ask which.