The Veracruz Courier
Match26 Sep 2026
A hiding for Veracruz
Beaten 1‑4 by Monterrey, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Rodolfo Moreno, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.75
A mark of 7.75 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Veracruz's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Veracruz has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Cristian Montero 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Christian Vega 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Cesar Corona
10 goals and a season average of 7.23 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Veracruz lose Jonathan Reyes
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
Inquest at Veracruz
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Manuel Gutierrez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Player ratings Liam Varela could not find anything
- Market The Cesar Corona story refuses to die
- Market The stand keeps filling up for Victor Araujo