Marked for Roberto Herrera
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Marco Arteaga 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Crisis
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gerardo Ochoa commits to Veracruz for another 4 years.
Squad14 Dec 2026
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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Roberto Herrera 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 70. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Veracruz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Arteaga 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roberto Herrera and Veracruz agree another 2 years.
Match5 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Ivan Vega’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Veracruz.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Crisis
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
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Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 53. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Chiapas made Veracruz work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Uneasy
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match28 Oct 2026
Veracruz through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Club America, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market2 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Veracruz, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match28 Oct 2026
Veracruz win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 100th minute. Club America will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Efrain Herrera: 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.” Veracruz have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Veracruz hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Morelia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Roberto Herrera 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.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Veracruz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roberto Herrera 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.82, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Hirving Martin has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Veracruz will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Match10 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Tijuana leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Hirving Martin, 34, rolls back the years — 8.40
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.40 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Guillermo Arteaga 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Marco Arteaga 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Roberto Herrera commits to Veracruz for another 1 years.
Match3 Oct 2026
Veracruz leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.29 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roberto Herrera, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Efrain Herrera and Veracruz agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Guillermo Arteaga has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Veracruz will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.27, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Guillermo Arteaga 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Hirving Martin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Veracruz.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.67 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Roberto Herrera 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Veracruz
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Veracruz man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Hirving Martin was the best thing in any of them.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Fouls conceded: 5. He was booked, he was fortunate not to be booked twice, and the referee had run out of patience long before the end.
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Upbeat
Market31 Aug 2026
Cruz Azul come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Veracruz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market31 Aug 2026
Efrain Araujo hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Veracruz can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Marco Arteaga 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Hirving Corona has left for Dorados in a $380.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Santos Laguna, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.