Daniel Moreno

Central Defender - Veracruz
20 Oct 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Daniel Moreno

11 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Hector Romo

Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Veracruz sink to position 16

8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

No end in sight to Veracruz's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Veracruz has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Veracruz

Vitor Nardo 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.

Match

Andres Lainez’s goal not enough for Veracruz

Andres Lainez scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Tijuana, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Hirving Moreno out for 34 days

The medical room confirms 34 days on the sidelines for Hirving Moreno, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Uriel Dos Santos

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

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.

Match

Veracruz come up short against Pumas UNAM

Pumas UNAM left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Vitor Nardo 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.

Squad

Antonio Portales knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Antonio Portales trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Daniel Moreno dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

7 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Veracruz

Beaten 1‑6 by Tigres, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match

Veracruz are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 8 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Market

Vitor Nardo 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 Vega 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

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Veracruz and Tigres in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Hector Romo

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A long afternoon for Marco Vega

Beaten 6 times, with 3 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Daniel Moreno

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Veracruz

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief