Jonathan Reyes

Striker - Veracruz U20
3 Apr 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Jonathan Reyes

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The Veracruz Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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 ratings

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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 ratings

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

Back issues
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The Veracruz Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Veracruz sell their best player to VfB Stuttgart

$7.6M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Match

Veracruz tear Santos Laguna apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Santos Laguna, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Cesar Corona scores twice — 9.34

Two goals and a mark of 9.34 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Veracruz say no — this time

The offer from Sevilla for Cesar Corona was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The terraces

Veracruz sell a favourite for $7.6M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Marco Pineda was one of the reasons people came, and $7.6M does not replace that by itself.

Market

Jonathan Dos Santos hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Veracruz can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Veracruz sell Hugo Lainez for $790.0K

Hugo Lainez has left for Toluca in a $790.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Tempers go at Veracruz

Kevin Escamilla 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.

Squad

Veracruz count the cost of losing Jonathan Reyes

47 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief