The Barracas Central Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
Al Gaish come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Barracas Central did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Barracas Central
Lucas Gamba 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Barracas Central promote Facundo Escobar from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Facundo Escobar has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Barracas Central promote Liam Villalba from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Liam Villalba has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Barracas Central promote Mateo Cohen from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mateo Cohen has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nicolás Capraro stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nicolás Capraro and Barracas Central agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Manuel Duarte
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Barracas Central
20 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Match8 Aug 2026
Barracas Central and Sarmiento 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
- Squad Words at Barracas Central training over how hard people work
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Emiliano Peralta on the draw
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Elías Pereyra