Alejandro Moreno explains why Atlanta United’s record move for 18-year-old Independiente standout Ezequiel Barco is a significant moment for MLS.
MLS record signing Ezequiel Barco is expected to be back training with Atlanta United next week after a lengthy injury layoff, coach Gerardo Martino told reporters on Thursday.
The former Independiente attacker was expected to be out four-to-six weeks with a right quad strain suffered during training in February.
Barco sealed the largest transfer in league history last month when he moved from the Argentine giants to Atlanta for $15 million, plus a possible percentage of any future transfer…
Alejandro Moreno explains why Atlanta United’s record move for 18-year-old Independiente standout Ezequiel Barco is a significant moment for MLS.
Atlanta United attacker Ezequiel Barco will be out four-to-six weeks with a right quad strain, the MLS club announced on Wednesday.
Barco, 18, suffered the injury during training on Tuesday.
Barco sealed the largest transfer in league history last month when he moved from Argentina giants Independiente to Atlanta for $15 million, plus a possible percentage of any future transfer depending on the date.
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Alejandro Moreno explains why Atlanta United’s record move for 18-year-old Independiente standout Ezequiel Barco is a significant moment for MLS.
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Ezequiel Barco, MF, Atlanta United
Predictably, we start with the $15 million man himself. Barco has all the makings to be a big hit in MLS and help lift Atlanta United to a title. Just by watching the 18-year-old while with Independiente in last season’s Copa Sudamericana, one could tell Barco has the game to…
Alejandro Moreno explains why Atlanta United’s record move for 18-year-old Independiente standout Ezequiel Barco is a significant moment for MLS.
ATLANTA — Atlanta United technical director Carlos Bocanegra wants to temper expectations that could accompany the record price the team paid for 18-year-old Ezequiel Barco.
Barco, a 5-foot-5 midfielder, was acquired for an MLS-record transfer fee of $15 million from Club Atletico Independiente of the Argentine first division. The deal was announced on Jan. 19.
Bocanegra said on Thursday Barco brings more of the dynamic, attacking style that helped take Atlanta to the playoffs in its inaugural…
Alejandro Moreno explains why Atlanta United’s record move for 18-year-old Independiente standout Ezequiel Barco is a significant moment for MLS.
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It took longer than anticipated to finalise but at last, Atlanta United have got their man: Ezequiel Barco’s record signing is a huge coup for both the club and Major League Soccer, and it comes at a crucial time in the player’s development.
So, what kind of player did Atlanta secure in Barco?
Perhaps the only real negative with Barco is that he’s the sort of player who encourages the use of some rather tired cliches. He’s a short, tricky playmaker from Argentina with a great talent for retaining…
Alejandro Moreno explains why Atlanta United’s record move for 18-year-old Independiente standout Ezequiel Barco is a significant moment for MLS.
Relive all Atlanta United’s spectacular goals during their inaugural season in MLS. Atlanta United completed the signing of 18-year-old Ezequiel Barco from Argentina side Independiente, sealing the largest transfer in Major League Soccer history.
Sources told ESPN Argentina last week that Independiente had agreed to sell the budding star for an MLS-record $15 million, plus 30 percent of any future transfer before December 2019, or 10 percent if Atlanta sells Barco after that date.
And Atlanta announced it has completed the signing of Barco as a young designated player during…
Alejandro Moreno explains why Atlanta United’s record move for 18-year-old Independiente standout Ezequiel Barco is a significant moment for MLS.
PHILADELPHIA — On a day in which Atlanta United was relatively quiet during the MLS SuperDraft, it still found a way to make some noise, announcing that at long last, the transfer of Ezequiel Barco to Atlanta from Argentine club Independiente had been completed.
It’s a deal that will set a new standard in MLS on multiple levels. While Atlanta United president Darren Eales wouldn’t disclose precisely what the transfer fee was, he said reports that put the price tag at $15 million were “in the…
Relive all Atlanta United’s spectacular goals during their inaugural season in MLS.
Independiente has reached an agreement in principle to send 18-year-old Ezequiel Barco to Major League Soccer side Atlanta United, sources have told ESPN Argentina’s Alejandro Ruzal.
The Argentine club has agreed to sell the budding star for a $15 million plus 30 percent of any future transfer before December of 2019, according to sources — which would be an MLS record.
It would smash the $10 million fee that Toronto FC paid Roma for Michael Bradley in 2013. Only a year ago, Atlanta also spent…
Ezequiel Barco, 18, is a transfer target for MLS side Atlanta United.
Atlanta United is standing firm with its original offer of $12 million for Independiente midfielder Ezequiel Barco, a league source confirmed to ESPN FC.
Reports out of Argentina indicated that Atlanta is prepared to pay $22 million to bring Barco to the Five Stripes, but a league source countered that Atlanta United hasn’t budged from its previous offer.
The source added that Barco has agreed to give $1 million from his cut of the potential transfer fee back to Independiente in order to facilitate…
Ezequiel Barco is an Argentina under-20 international.
Independiente president Hugo Moyano is hoping to convince Ezequiel Barco to remain at the club amid claims the 18-year-old midfielder is weighing up an offer from Atlanta United in Major League Soccer.
Barco is under contract with Independiente until June 2019 but reports in Argentina claim Atlanta are willing to pay his $12 million release clause and that the youngster is set to leave.
Asked about Barco’s future at Independiente, Moyano told TyC Sports: “It’s not easy but it’s not impossible. We…