Xavier Báez

Defensive Midfielder - Chiapas
19 Sep 2026
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Marked for Xavier Báez

6 Edition

The Chiapas Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match5 Sep 2026

7 matches without a win for Chiapas

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Chiapas are no longer polite ones.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A one-man rearguard from Ricardo Díaz

There were 6 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.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

No sign of nerves from Mateo Silvetti at 20 — 7.73

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Mateo Silvetti did not need any: 7.73, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Chiapas

Mateo Silvetti 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Xavier Báez

“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.

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.

Match5 Sep 2026

Mateo Silvetti rescues a point for Chiapas

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

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Gullit Peña could not find anything

5.71. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

Market7 Sep 2026

Chiapas put César Francisco de la Peña up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. César Francisco de la Peña may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Chiapas Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Aug 2026

Ricardo Díaz keeps Chiapas in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Erik Pimentel 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 Chiapas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Erik Pimentel

“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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Chiapas and Osciel De La Cruz

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Chiapas, another week without a signature from Osciel De La Cruz.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Maximiliano Cruz 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.

Match8 Aug 2026

Honours even between Chiapas and Pumas UNAM

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market10 Aug 2026

Nobody at Chiapas has picked up the phone to Luis Sánchez

48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Market10 Aug 2026

Chiapas bring in an old head

Xavier Báez is 39 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Market10 Aug 2026

Experience through the door at Chiapas

Erik Pimentel arrives at 36 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief