Ivan Martin

Striker - Club America
19 Mar 2027
Friday
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Marked for Ivan Martin

9 Edition

The Club America Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Erick Sánchez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Club America

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Tempers go at Club America

Henry Martín 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.

Market

Brian Rodríguez wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Match

Club America see off Chiapas

Three points for Club America, 1‑0 the final word against Chiapas in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Alejandro Zendejas in the eights

A performance of 8.38 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Kevin Álvarez

19 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad

Thiago Espinosa 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

Ivan Martin dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

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The Club America Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Víctor Dávila runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Henry Martín 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 Club America this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

6 unbeaten for Club America

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Club America did not have in the autumn.

Market

Patricio Salas attracts admirers

The name of Patricio Salas has come up in conversations Club America were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Ivan Martin stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivan Martin and Club America agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words at Club America training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan dos Santos 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.

Market

The Ralph Orquin conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Dorados will make the call about Ralph Orquin this week. Club America have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Kevin Álvarez

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Kevin Álvarez has come out of that comparison in the side, and Club America have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Aarón Mejía

Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief