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Liga MX Apertura Week 14: Protests and violence mar Mexican football weekend

Here are some of the main takeaways from the fourteenth week of play in the 2019 Liga MX Apertura.

Veracruz players are right to protest unpaid wages

What is there left to say that there hasn’t been said before? Veracruz are a club in absolute shambles, and shame on Liga MX for even allowing this club back to the league in the first place following the club’s relegation last season.

If you don’t know what happened on Friday between Veracruz and Tigres, Antonio wrote a really good recap. Basically, some Veracruz players haven’t been paid for months, and the club is in such a bad financial state that the conditions in which the youth teams and the Liga MX Femenil side are playing are absolutely deplorable.