The Veracruz Courier
Match19 Aug 2026
Veracruz through in the cup
A 4‑2 win over Chiapas, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market24 Aug 2026
Queretaro 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Jorge Pineda scores twice — 8.83
Two goals and a mark of 8.83 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market24 Aug 2026
Business is business: Miguel Montes goes
Werder Bremen paid $6.5M and Veracruz took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market24 Aug 2026
Erick Alvarez asks to leave Veracruz
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market24 Aug 2026
Jorge Marquez attracts admirers
The name of Jorge Marquez has come up in conversations Veracruz were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Vitor Nardo 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Rodolfo Vazquez runs at them all day
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Veracruz
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
In brief
- Match 6 goals as Veracruz and Chiapas go for it
- Squad The manager makes an example of Antonio Portales
- Player ratings One of those days for Vitor Nardo