Emilio Magaña

Right Midfielder - Veracruz
25 Sep 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Emilio Magaña

84 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Santiago Lainez is carrying Veracruz

28 goals and a season average of 7.47. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Kevin Montes breaks a bone — 106 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 106 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Andrés Araujo keeps the receipts

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Cesar Reyes

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Veracruz

Jose Vega 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

Veracruz see off Chiapas

Three points for Veracruz, 1‑0 the final word against Chiapas in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Santiago Lainez at his very best

Marked 8.19. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Veracruz.

Boardroom

Veracruz release $4.0M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Loan watch

Eduardo Pineda wants to come home

“I did not go to Atlanta United FC to sit and watch. I want to come back to Veracruz and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 30 matches say the rest.

In brief

Back issues
80 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

No mercy from Veracruz

Tijuana will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Veracruz were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad

Santiago Lainez is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.42 with 24 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

A day Santiago Lainez will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match

Whatever happens, Veracruz do not lose

11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Player ratings

Cesar Reyes runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Santiago Lainez 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 Veracruz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A move Emilio Magaña would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Emilio Magaña is living that version at Veracruz, and it tends to show in the first month.

Player ratings

One of those days for Rodolfo Edson

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Loan watch

Eduardo Pineda has seen enough of Atlanta United FC

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Veracruz, and 6 appearances in 26 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief