The Puebla Chronicle
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Emiliano Gómez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ulises Torres says Puebla went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Puebla
Juan Pablo Vargas was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
One of those days for Kevin Velasco
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.09, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match3 Oct 2026
Puebla see off Dorados
Three points for Puebla, 2‑1 the final word against Dorados in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
231% of the income goes out in wages at Puebla
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
One of those days for Juan Pablo Vargas
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.93, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Jesús Iván Rodríguez
“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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Ignacio Maestro Puch keeps on missing
Shots: 9, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
In brief
- Squad Somebody is after Julio González’s shirt
- Market Ciro Thompson joins Puebla on a free
- Market Carlos Henríquez leaves for nothing