Ivan Alvarez

Left Forward - Veracruz
20 Sep 2026
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Marked for Ivan Alvarez

7 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match12 Sep 2026

No end in sight to Veracruz's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Veracruz has to find a result from somewhere.

Market14 Sep 2026

Efrain Arteaga 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Veracruz

Gerardo Ochoa 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

Ivan Alvarez’s goal not enough for Veracruz

Ivan Alvarez scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Tigres, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad14 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Efrain Vazquez

“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 Sep 2026

Words at Veracruz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Reyes 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.

Loan watch14 Sep 2026

Erick Edson wants to come home

“I did not go to Livorno to sit and watch. I want to come back to Veracruz and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Squad14 Sep 2026

When it matters, Gerardo Ochoa plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market14 Sep 2026

Uriel Dos Santos linked with a move away

The name of Uriel Dos Santos keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Veracruz say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Rafael Caicedo puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Veracruz, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match5 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Gerardo Ochoa 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Enrique Cedillo 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.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Both jobs done by Rafael Caicedo — 6.54

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.54, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Match5 Sep 2026

Miguel Guzmán answers Atlas immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Miguel Guzmán had Veracruz level again within 3 minutes, and Atlas never got to play with a lead at all.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Uriel Dos Santos is the division's best young player this month

At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Veracruz will try very hard not to make too much of it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Eros García signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Eros García and Veracruz agree another 4 years.

Match5 Sep 2026

Miguel Guzmán rescues a point for Veracruz

It needed Miguel Guzmán to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Atlas, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

4 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Gerardo Ochoa

Successful dribbles: 46. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Hirving Gutierrez decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match19 Aug 2026

Veracruz out of the cup

Chiapas ended it 2‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market24 Aug 2026

Sebastian Vega puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Veracruz, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Veracruz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Gallardo 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Jonathan Guardado

“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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

The kick that got away from Santiago Naveda

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

Match22 Aug 2026

Veracruz and Club America take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

1 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market3 Aug 2026

Erick Arteaga attracts admirers

The name of Erick Arteaga has come up in conversations Veracruz were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market3 Aug 2026

Minnesota United FC come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Veracruz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market3 Aug 2026

Erick Arteaga wants more than Veracruz are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Erick Arteaga 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 ratings3 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Alexis Moreno

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Veracruz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Gallardo 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Kevin Alvarez gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match1 Aug 2026

Veracruz share the spoils with Guadalajara

A 2‑2 draw with Guadalajara leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Alexis Moreno asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief