The Goalie Who Disappeared

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Jerce Reyes Barrios was a pro soccer player in Venezuela — an underdog living a sports-movie dream. Then he became an immigrant to Trump's America: The administration accused Jerce of being a gang member. ICE flew him to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. And his family hasn't spoken to him since. All of this... for a tattoo about his favorite football club. Paola Ramos reports on how Jerce escaped one dictator, only to be trapped by another, thanks to the very collapse of American democracy itself. • Read Paola Ramos' book, "Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America" https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741645/defectors-by-paola-ramos/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out.
0:02.5	I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:08.2	Help Jerzy, who was a great trainer for us, guide him wherever he is.
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0:57.0	Your fandom for Real Madrid is...
1:09.0	It's real in the sense that I grew up in Madrid in the 90s when it's sort of exploding.
1:15.3	I played basketball.
1:16.6	Like, basketball was my thing, but there was no way to not love Real Madrid as a kid during those years.
1:22.2	Now, you had, like, everyone sort of was pulled into the game.
1:26.2	They incentivized young kids growing up around Spain to be a
1:29.1	frontrunner. You felt it in the streets. You felt it everywhere. It was amazing. Watching this team,
1:35.5	this club, excuse me, come to power. For people who don't know anything about Real Madrid,
1:40.3	don't give a fuck about soccer, what was that like? That was like to me, like 1998, I believe.
1:45.0	It's when it happens.
1:47.0	I think I'm like 10 years old.
1:49.0	It's one of the first times that my mom lets me stay up super late.
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