Esteban Barraza

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Potencia
31 Jul 2029
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The Potencia Post

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match30 Jul 2029

Potencia up to position 2

35 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

The dugout30 Jul 2029

Bruno Vera keeps the receipts

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

Squad30 Jul 2029

Words exchanged at Potencia

Tomás Hernández 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.

Transfer targets30 Jul 2029

Central Espanol tell Potencia: Thiago Rodríguez is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad30 Jul 2029

Words at Potencia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franco Casuriaga 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.

Squad30 Jul 2029

This league is too small for Franco Casuriaga

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Potencia will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

The dugout30 Jul 2029

Santiago Amaral has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Potencia will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout30 Jul 2029

No hiding place for Esteban Barraza

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

The dugout30 Jul 2029

Joaquín Sánchez has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Joaquín Sánchez has written the date down.

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The Potencia Post

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad5 Feb 2029

A move Joaquín Morrone would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Joaquín Morrone is living that version at Potencia, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Lukas König 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 Potencia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

The owner puts $104.4K into Potencia

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Words at Potencia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joaquín Morrone 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.

The dugout5 Feb 2029

Lautaro de León back under a manager who knows him

The new man at Potencia has worked with Lautaro de León before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.

The dugout5 Feb 2029

The manager makes an example of Lucas Peña

“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.

Squad5 Feb 2029

This league is too small for Joaquín Morrone

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Potencia will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

The dugout5 Feb 2029

When it matters, Lukas König 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.

Market5 Feb 2029

Still no ink between Potencia and Lautaro de León

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Potencia, another week without a signature from Lautaro de León.

In brief