Mauricio Medrano

Striker - Free Agent
15 Nov 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Mauricio Medrano

34 Edition

The Atlas Courier

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Atlas run riot against Puebla

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Both of them Eduardo Aguirre's — 8.94

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.94, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Rodrigo Schlegel is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Atlas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

The step up is real for Jesús Guillén

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Luís Esteves falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Ryan Mmaee was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.28. 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Alfonso González

Marked 8.28 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Words exchanged at Atlas

Kevin Escamilla 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.

Squad

Mauricio Medrano out for 26 days

The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Mauricio Medrano, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

  • The dugout Kevin Escamilla gets it from the manager
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Adrián Mora's mistake
Back issues
30 Edition

The Atlas Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Rodrigo Schlegel has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Atlas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Florián Monzón has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Atlas can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Match

Duk the difference as Atlas beat Pumas UNAM

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Duk. 2‑0 against Pumas UNAM, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Luís Esteves falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Words exchanged at Atlas

Kevin Escamilla 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.

Squad

Atlas lose Mauricio Medrano

56 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings

Duk takes the honours

Marked 7.91 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Atlas had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

Luís Esteves left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Luís Esteves will call it something else in private.

Player ratings

Alfonso González runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

  • The dugout Ryan Mmaee gets it from the manager
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Adrián Mora is still being punished for one mistake