The Barranquilla Gazette
Market14 Feb 2028
César Bravo 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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Barranquilla
Yesid García 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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Rico Kennedy gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Rico Kennedy has just signed for Barranquilla, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words at Barranquilla training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastián Caballero 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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Sebastián Caballero gets it from the manager
“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.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Daniel Castillo stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.59 on the card, and the Barranquilla support went home talking about one name.
Market14 Feb 2028
Barranquilla buy the years ahead of Rico Kennedy
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market14 Feb 2028
Barranquilla sign Emmanuel Garnier, one for the future
Emmanuel Garnier is 19, and Barranquilla have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Match12 Feb 2028
Barranquilla and Valledupar take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Cristian Santander
- Player ratings Andrés Murillo never got going
- Player ratings Javier Ortíz runs at them all day