The Atlas Courier
Squad6 Dec 2027
Kevin Escamilla damages knee ligaments — 121 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 121 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings6 Dec 2027
Marco Moreno, 19, steals the show — 7.79
Marked 7.79 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
Guillermo Pozos: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Atlas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market6 Dec 2027
Edgar Zaldívar is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Atlas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Real improvement from Luis Gamboa at Atlas
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Luis Gamboa is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Tempers go at Atlas
Jorge Rodríguez 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.
The terraces6 Dec 2027
One of their own: Marco Moreno
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match4 Dec 2027
Marco Moreno the difference as Atlas beat Morelia
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marco Moreno. 1‑0 against Morelia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Words at Atlas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Moreno 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.
In brief
- Match Atlas at the halfway mark
- The dugout Atlas keep their word to Adonis Frías
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Duk