Gabriel Ramirez

Central Defender - Veracruz U20
31 Oct 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Gabriel Ramirez

26 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Jorge Alberto Sánchez breaks a bone — 91 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

The wait goes on for Veracruz

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Cesar Vazquez

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Gabriel Ramirez asks to leave Veracruz

“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.

Market

Veracruz sign Alan Ramos for $330.0K

The paperwork is done: Alan Ramos joins from Dorados in a deal worth $330.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

Jorge Torres Nilo 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

Julio Pérez gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Julio Pérez has just signed for Veracruz, and for once the answer mattered.

The terraces

$330.0K for Alan Ramos, and Veracruz supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Alan Ramos from Dorados for $330.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Match

Monterrey take the points off Veracruz

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Juan Ramírez sold, and an era ends

$26.3M from Palmeiras for Juan Ramírez. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

Player ratings

Uriel Ochoa runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Rodrygo Rangel is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Veracruz will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

The terraces

Veracruz sell a favourite for $26.3M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Juan Ramírez was one of the reasons people came, and $26.3M does not replace that by itself.

Match

The wait goes on for Veracruz

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Ajax are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Veracruz will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Rodrygo Rangel

12 goals and a season average of 7.26 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Rodolfo Reyes 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

The manager makes an example of Hernán Acosta

“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.

In brief

11 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Veracruz

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Sebastian 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.

Market

Gabriel Ramirez 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.

Squad

Juan Ramírez 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.

Player ratings

Juan Ramírez stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.95 on the card, and the Veracruz support went home talking about one name.

Squad

Juan Arteaga signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Juan Arteaga and Veracruz agree another 3 years.

In brief