Jhon Acurio

Striker - Dorados U20
9 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Jhon Acurio

4 Edition

The Dorados Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Cup progress for Dorados

A 1‑0 win over Morelia, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Market

Jhan Rengifo hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dorados can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Martín Sol

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Carlos Gutiérrez in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dorados this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Jonathan Vaal

At 21 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Leonardo Vargas

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Arath Egaña 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

Carlos Gutiérrez 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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Josué Reyes

15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

In brief