Hugo Guardado

Goalkeeper - Crawley Town
11 Mar 2028
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Marked for Hugo Guardado

46 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market14 Jun 2027

Reece Brown asks to leave Crawley Town

“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.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

Crawley Town bid $960.0K for Karlan Grant

The offer went to West Bromwich Albion this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Iván Cardozo arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Iván Cardozo has, at Crawley Town, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

Crawley Town bid $130.0K for Noah Phillips

The offer went to Leyton Orient this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Taylor Richards 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.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

Oxford United tell Crawley Town: Jamie McDonnell is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at Crawley Town

Hugo Vargas Rios 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 dugout14 Jun 2027

The manager makes an example of Zakaria Bengueddoudj

“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.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Iván Cardozo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Iván Cardozo and Crawley Town agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words at Veracruz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Héctor Moreno 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Veracruz

Omar Mendoza and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Alfonso Blanco signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alfonso Blanco and Veracruz agree another 2 years.

Market16 Nov 2026

Experience through the door at Veracruz

Alfonso Blanco arrives at 39 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Victor Edson gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Victor Edson is on it.

Looking ahead16 Nov 2026

A reunion for Jaziel Martínez

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Morelia in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Kevin Escamilla has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Kevin Escamilla has written the date down.

Market16 Nov 2026

The Gerardo Lainez story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Gerardo Lainez signs something — a contract at Veracruz or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Competition arrives for Lukas Ramil Sauer

A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Veracruz have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.

In brief

8 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Renato Lopes was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match19 Sep 2026

4 matches without a win for Veracruz

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Veracruz are no longer polite ones.

Market21 Sep 2026

So close: Cesar Marquez’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Chiapas moved on, Cesar Marquez reports back to Veracruz, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Real improvement from Santiago Cena at Veracruz

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Santiago Cena is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match19 Sep 2026

A bad afternoon for Veracruz against Tigres

0‑1 to Tigres, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Veracruz

Mariano Penepil 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 dugout21 Sep 2026

Hugo Lozano: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Looking ahead21 Sep 2026

Veracruz take on the side everybody is chasing

Pumas UNAM arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Hugo Guardado

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hugo Guardado, and the manager let it.

In brief