The Pachuca Chronicle
Match6 Feb 2027
Nobody wants to play Pachuca right now
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Vintage Salomón Rondón — 8.62
At 37 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.62, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Pachuca training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio Barreto 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Pachuca see off Dorados
Three points for Pachuca, 3‑2 the final word against Dorados in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Nicolás Vallejo
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Carlos Moreno
“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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Ivan Herrera steps up from the Pachuca academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Herrera has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market8 Feb 2027
Pachuca promote Uriel Alvarez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Uriel Alvarez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
One of those days for Adrián Alcaraz
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Squad Óscar Perea in a row with a teammate
- Boardroom Pachuca release $4.0M for the manager
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Sergio Barreto