José Sánchez

Left Back - Queretaro U20
14 Mar 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for José Sánchez

29 Edition

The Queretaro Sentinel

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A brace, and Jhojan Julio takes the afternoon — 8.28

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jhojan Julio provided it, and the 8.28 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Michael Carcelén 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 Queretaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Enzo Giménez — 7.76

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 13 actions, 7.76, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Match

Jhojan Julio the difference as Queretaro beat Pachuca

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jhojan Julio. 2‑1 against Pachuca, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Carlo Adriano did the work nobody counts — 6.80

10 combined actions and 6.80. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Squad

Words at Queretaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernardo Parra is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Gerardo Alvarez, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Bernardo Parra

“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.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Waldo Madrid

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Queretaro told Waldo Madrid something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

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27 Edition

The Queretaro Sentinel

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

José Sánchez keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Queretaro may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Eduardo Pérez asks to leave Queretaro

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

Queretaro close the window on a squad of their own making

0 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

The dugout

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Squad

Words at Queretaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Carcelén is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Tempers go at Queretaro

Lucas Abascia 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.

Match

Queretaro come up short against Tijuana

Tijuana left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Edison Gruezo was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

No place for Edison Gruezo in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Edison Gruezo has his answer from Queretaro; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout No hiding place for José Hernández
  • Market Morelia are about to pick up the phone
23 Edition

The Queretaro Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Queretaro

Michael Carcelén 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

Real improvement from Emilio Albarran at Queretaro

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Emilio Albarran is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Diego Reyes told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Diego Reyes has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Queretaro.

Match

A bad afternoon for Queretaro against Tigres

0‑1 to Tigres, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Carlos Villanueva stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Carlos Villanueva and Queretaro agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Queretaro

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Parra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Gerardo Alvarez left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

Bernardo Parra gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Iker Benito runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

9 Edition

The Queretaro Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

5 matches without a win for Queretaro

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Queretaro are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at Queretaro

Diego Reyes 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

Rodrigo Canseco is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

A bad afternoon for Queretaro against Cruz Azul

0‑2 to Cruz Azul, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Queretaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Homenchenko is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

Gerardo Alvarez answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Eduardo Pérez

“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.

The dugout

Jesús Vega dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Looking ahead

Jhojan Julio faces his old club

Tijuana next, and one man in the Queretaro dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief