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Edition
The Real Cartagena Sentinel
31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
Jarlan Barrera has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Real Cartagena can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
20 new faces, and Real Cartagena are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
When it matters, Cristian Flórez 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Fredy Montero a promise
- Squad Competition arrives for Juan Eduardo Reina
- The dugout Cristian Flórez keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Welcome back, Javier Uribe