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Is this blog too local??
By: Lugo |
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Due to the lack of comments and feedback I’ve been getting I am beginning to wonder if a blog on a specific Colombian team in English was indeed a good idea or if it would have been better to write about Colombian soccer in general which could be more appealing to the worldwide audience of […]
Tags: Colombia National Team, Junior, Copa Mustang, Colombian League, Domestic, General Blog, Team News, Colombia, General blogs, Club blogs, Tag Index“Feria del Sol” Wraps up. Spirits are high.
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Despute losing 1-0 to Bucaramanga in the final game, The sharks prepare the return to Barranquilla (right in the middle of carnival, god help us…) to get ready for their first match agains Once Caldas in Cartagena. Why in Cartagena? Because the Metropolitano Stadium is suspended because last season some lowlife threw a battery to […]
The Venezuelan Tour: One up, one down and no Gio.
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After its inaugural 4-2 loss to Maracaibo and its yesterday 1-0 victory at Trujillanos, Junior continues it’s Venezuelan tour heading now to Merida. Coach Sachi Escobar is still assembling the squad and while star signing Giovanni Hernandez has yet to feature even from the bench, Escobar has given the chance to several youngsters. And it […]
Category: Team NewsRiep calls it quits plus starting XI at Maracaibo
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Citing family reasons Rodrigo Riep has formally renounced his place at Junior but one wonders if the name of Giovanni Hernandez had too much to weigh in his decision as the first thing that the Colombian international did after arriving to Barranquilla was stripping the Argentinean of his no. 10 shirt at least in training. […]
Category: Team NewsSo the prince has arrived… and with quite a court
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Well… seems the soap opera of the off-season is finally over. Giovanni Hernandez will be strutting his stuff at the Metropolitano and the best part of it is that he isn’t by any means, coming alone.
Gio arrived today to Barranquilla for his medicals and the board confirmed that they had reached an agreement with […]
Carnival and Soccer: A match made in hell?
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As next Friday and the reading of el bando approaches fast, Barranquilla gets ready to almost a month of all out-wild partying, as if barranquilleros were ever short of partying. Such frenzy undoubtedly affects the life of the players at Junior. And having such well-known party animals like Herly Alcazar or Cesar Fawcett seems like […]
Gio Alone won’t soothe Junior’s woes.
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So far, Junior has made some impressive moves toward improving the squad in adding Dumar Rueda and Alex Del Castillo solidifying their defensive midfield with a Mauricio Serna-esque player (Rueda) and a Freddy Rincón-esque player (Del Castillo). They proved themselves as a worthy partnership that collaborated greatly in both destructing and constructing. And after securing […]
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