Bless Ege

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Queretaro
18 Feb 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Bless Ege

8 Edition

The Queretaro Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Queretaro

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

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

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 Monterrey

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

The dugout

Jose Ochoa 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.

Squad

Paulo Victor 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.

Squad

100 appearances for Bless Ege

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Santiago Martin to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Jose Ochoa 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.

In brief