Efrain Ramirez

Goalkeeper - Veracruz U20
7 Dec 2031
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Marked for Efrain Ramirez

211 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

12 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Aug 2030

39 days out for Efrain Ramirez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Veracruz will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market12 Aug 2030

Gerardo Rodriguez 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 The request is on a desk at Veracruz, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets12 Aug 2030

$410.0K settles it between the clubs for Diego Abella

Morelia have accepted the money. What Veracruz do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market12 Aug 2030

Cristopher Benítez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Veracruz is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad12 Aug 2030

A muscle injury and 14 days out for Rodolfo Vazquez

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Veracruz will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Transfer targets12 Aug 2030

Oribe Marquez turns down Veracruz

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Puebla keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad12 Aug 2030

Words exchanged at Veracruz

Rodolfo Vazquez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market12 Aug 2030

Joshua Díaz comes home

The shirt still fits. Joshua Díaz is back at Veracruz, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad12 Aug 2030

Words at Veracruz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Rodriguez 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.

In brief

Back issues
210 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

5 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad5 Aug 2030

Efrain Ramirez breaks a bone — 46 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad5 Aug 2030

The knee: Christian Guardado out for 17 days

17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Veracruz lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout5 Aug 2030

Federico Guerra keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Veracruz may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad5 Aug 2030

Tempers go at Veracruz

Rodolfo Vazquez 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.

Transfer targets5 Aug 2030

No deal for Jonathan Vega at that price

Veracruz offered $56.0K; Pachuca said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad5 Aug 2030

A row about effort at Veracruz

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan Rodriguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match3 Aug 2030

Veracruz see off Dorados

Three points for Veracruz, 1‑0 the final word against Dorados in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings5 Aug 2030

Juan Cruz Zurbriggen was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Player ratings5 Aug 2030

Aldahir Pérez takes the honours

Marked 7.79 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Veracruz had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

209 Edition

The Veracruz Courier

29 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad29 Jul 2030

Efrain Ramirez breaks a bone — 53 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 53 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad29 Jul 2030

Christian Guardado damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.

Market29 Jul 2030

Blas Rolón has said yes to Dorados

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Veracruz have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market29 Jul 2030

Luis Fernando Hernández 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.

Squad29 Jul 2030

Rodolfo Vazquez 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.

Boardroom29 Jul 2030

Still no name above the door at Veracruz

Day 9 of the vacancy. Candidates have been priced, sounded out and quietly ruled out — and the caretaker’s win ratio is becoming an argument all by itself.

Transfer targets29 Jul 2030

Veracruz rebuffed over Erick Sandoval

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chiapas have kept their man, and Veracruz go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad29 Jul 2030

A late step up for César Bustos

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

The dugout29 Jul 2030

The form table has caught Luis Gómez

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief