Manuel Moreno

Central Defender - Veracruz U20
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Marked for Manuel Moreno

73 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad20 Dec 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dionicio Escalante

48 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Veracruz lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad20 Dec 2027

Erick Pineda keeps Veracruz in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad20 Dec 2027

Tempers go at Veracruz

Jorge Herrera 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.

Player ratings20 Dec 2027

Jorge Herrera was immovable

22 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad20 Dec 2027

Veracruz count the cost of losing Manuel Moreno

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

Player ratings20 Dec 2027

Daniel Moreno shuts the door

Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief

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69 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad22 Nov 2027

Dionicio Escalante damages knee ligaments — 79 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 79 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Veracruz

Jorge Herrera 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.

Player ratings22 Nov 2027

Ninety minutes of Manuel Marquez at his very best

Marked 8.67. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Veracruz.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Manuel Moreno out for 47 days

The medical room confirms 47 days on the sidelines for Manuel Moreno, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad22 Nov 2027

No hiding place for Mateo Mamani

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

Player ratings22 Nov 2027

Fernando Monarrez will replay that one

1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.

Match20 Nov 2027

Honours even between Veracruz and Leon

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The terraces22 Nov 2027

The spotlight tightens on Carlos Ochoa

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Player ratings22 Nov 2027

Amaury Morales runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief