The Barranquilla Gazette
Market22 Jan 2029
Eduardo Rothermel puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Barranquilla, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings22 Jan 2029
Nothing got past Gustavo Reyes
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market22 Jan 2029
Jorge Martinez is a Barranquilla player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market22 Jan 2029
Cristian Borja is a Barranquilla player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market22 Jan 2029
As if he never left: Andres Lopez returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Andres Lopez is a Barranquilla player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Sebastián Guerra 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 Barranquilla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings22 Jan 2029
Johan Brausin runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom22 Jan 2029
A promise the Barranquilla board did not keep
There was a commitment, there was a date, and the date went past. Trust at a football club takes years to build and one afternoon to spend.
Boardroom22 Jan 2029
98% of the income goes out in wages at Barranquilla
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
In brief
- Squad Sebastián Guerra asks for a word with the manager
- Squad The manager makes an example of Andrés Murillo
- Player ratings Nothing got past Alberto Higgins