The Veracruz Courier
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jero
93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Veracruz lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match7 Nov 2026
A hiding for Veracruz
Beaten 0‑3 by Pachuca, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Veracruz
Ulises Rivas 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
Hugo Rodríguez 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Uriel Gutierrez
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Veracruz dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Veracruz lose a squad player
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Angel Marquez 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Sebastian Ochoa left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- The dugout Héctor Moreno knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout No place in the plan for Héctor Moreno
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Martín Benítez’s exile