Osvaldo Basurto

Striker - Deportivo Municipal
18 Jun 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Osvaldo Basurto

50 Edition

The Queretaro Sentinel

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

121 days out for Carlo Adriano after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Queretaro will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Rubén Arellano agrees terms with Puebla

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Queretaro people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad

Diego Reyes 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.

Market

Veracruz join the queue for Daniel Parra

Add another name to the list: Veracruz have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Daniel Parra. The answer from Queretaro has not changed — yet.

Transfer targets

Queretaro rebuffed over Facundo Krüger

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Estudiantes have kept their man, and Queretaro go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Bernardo Parra 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.

Market

Bernardo Parra told to find a new club

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

The dugout

Lucas Abascia is still paying for one afternoon at Queretaro

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

Osvaldo Basurto 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.

In brief

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The Queretaro Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A brace, and Mateo Coronel takes the afternoon — 8.66

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mateo Coronel provided it, and the 8.66 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Guillermo Allison keeps Queretaro in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Gerardo Gil agrees terms with Chiapas

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Queretaro people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad

Mateo Coronel is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.37 with 21 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

Osvaldo Basurto puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Queretaro, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Queretaro

Diego Reyes 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.

Squad

Claudio Robles 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

6 goals as Queretaro and Santos Laguna go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Queretaro and Santos Laguna, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match

Queretaro come up short against Santos Laguna

Santos Laguna left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

  • The dugout Carlo Adriano gets it from the manager
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Leonardo Morales's mistake