The Dorados Courier
Match8 Aug 2026
A hiding for Dorados
Beaten 2‑6 by Veracruz, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A brace, and Jhon Acurio takes the afternoon — 8.47
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jhon Acurio provided it, and the 8.47 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Dorados walk away from José Juan Macías
$1.6M was the most the club would pay and Pumas UNAM were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kevin Araujo turns down Dorados
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Veracruz keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Salvador Manríquez stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Salvador Manríquez and Dorados agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Dorados
Jonathan Vaal 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Jhon Acurio among the goals in a wild afternoon
8 goals in one match, Jhon Acurio on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Dorados and Veracruz.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Dorados rebuffed over Jordan Carrillo
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Guadalajara have kept their man, and Dorados go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Jhon Acurio
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Salvador Manríquez
- Market Hirving Arteaga steps up from the Dorados academy
- Market One of our own: Hector Alvarez joins the Dorados first team