Efrain Herrera

Defensive Midfielder - Veracruz
3 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Efrain Herrera

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2 Nov 2026
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Player ratings

Nestor Arteaga runs at them all day

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.

Match

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.

Market

Marco Arteaga puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Veracruz, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Market

Guillermo Arteaga wants to know where this is going

“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.

Squad

Marco Arteaga 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Veracruz against Morelia

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

Squad

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.

In brief

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28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Guillermo Arteaga 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.

Match

Rodrigo Brandán’s goal not enough for Veracruz

Rodrigo Brandán scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Monterrey, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Marco Arteaga

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.

Squad

No hiding place for Roberto Herrera

“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.

Squad

Efrain Herrera stays put

“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.

Squad

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.

In brief