Xavier Báez

Defensive Midfielder - Dorados
29 Jan 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Xavier Báez

24 Edition

The Dorados Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Emir Basabe out for 98 days

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

Match

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

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

Squad

43 days out for Paolo Yrizar after a fracture

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

Match

Every point is an argument now for Dorados

Position 17 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Dorados

A 0‑3 beating by Monterrey was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market

Leonardo Vargas asks to leave Dorados

“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.

Transfer targets

$1.9M settles it between the clubs for Christian Marquez

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

The dugout

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Transfer targets

Dorados bid $1.8M for Juninho

The offer went to Pumas UNAM this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Dorados Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Dorados

Beaten 0‑3 by Queretaro, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Transfer targets

Dorados bid $420.0K for Franco Benítez

The offer went to Temperley this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Luis Arcadio García stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Luis Arcadio García and Dorados agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Salvador Manríquez 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 Dorados this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Tomás Gallay

Dorados asked and Colón said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jonathan Vaal

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonathan Vaal, and the manager let it.

Squad

100 appearances for David Osuna

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Squad

Xavier Báez is a square peg at Dorados

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Dorados dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief