Sergio Miranda

Defensive Midfielder - Barracas Central
22 Sep 2038
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590 Edition

The Barracas Central Gazette

16 Nov 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match11 Nov 2037

The season ends here for Barracas Central

River Plate go through. The table said this team was good enough for months and the format does not care what the table said, which is the argument every eliminated club has had with itself since playoffs were invented.

The terraces16 Nov 2037

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 38 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Squad16 Nov 2037

Julián Fernández: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Barracas Central have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings16 Nov 2037

A first appearance Sergio Miranda will want to forget — 5.66

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.66, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Squad16 Nov 2037

Tempers go at Barracas Central

Manuel Duarte 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.

Match11 Nov 2037

7 goals as Barracas Central and River Plate go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Barracas Central and River Plate, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad16 Nov 2037

A move Juan Camilo Romero 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. Juan Camilo Romero is living that version at Barracas Central, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom16 Nov 2037

Barracas Central agree a free transfer for Francisco Álvarez

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad16 Nov 2037

The manager makes an example of Tomás Porra

“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.

In brief

Back issues
585 Edition

The Barracas Central Gazette

12 Oct 2037
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Oct 2037

Kevin Jappert breaks a bone — 25 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings12 Oct 2037

Age has not caught Manuel Duarte yet — 8.31

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.31 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match10 Oct 2037

Still nobody has beaten Barracas Central

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad12 Oct 2037

Tempers go at Barracas Central

Manuel Duarte 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.

Squad12 Oct 2037

Joel Flecha is carrying Barracas Central

8 goals and a season average of 7.47. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings12 Oct 2037

Joel Flecha in the eights

A performance of 9.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match10 Oct 2037

Barracas Central see off Instituto

Three points for Barracas Central, 2‑1 the final word against Instituto in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings12 Oct 2037

Diego Pavia was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.93. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad12 Oct 2037

Barracas Central count the cost of losing Nahuel Dughera

35 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

545 Edition

The Barracas Central Gazette

5 Jan 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Jan 2037

A fracture rules Leandro Ballota out for 135 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Barracas Central will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad5 Jan 2037

The season belongs to Kevin Jappert

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Barracas Central have had the benefit of it.

Squad5 Jan 2037

Facundo Mater 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 Barracas Central this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom5 Jan 2037

Barracas Central beat the market to Bruno Leite from San Martín SJ

San Martín SJ will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Bruno Leite has pre-agreed a move to Barracas Central, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad5 Jan 2037

Ariel González Brizuela signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ariel González Brizuela commits to Barracas Central for another 2 years.

Market5 Jan 2037

The Manuel Duarte question follows Barracas Central around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Manuel Duarte’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief