Manuel Sanchez

Right Back - Veracruz U20
18 Dec 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Manuel Sanchez

58 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Veracruz board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market

Marcelo Tinari has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Veracruz they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 18 in, 13 out at Veracruz

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 13 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

Jesus Vazquez wants more than Veracruz are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Market

Diogo Bagüí has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Veracruz can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Veracruz

Rodolfo Montes 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Hirving Salcedo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hirving Salcedo, and the manager let it.

Match

Atlas take the points off Veracruz

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Veracruz count the cost of losing Manuel Sanchez

14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

  • Player ratings Rodolfo Montes was unplayable
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout A promise honoured at Veracruz