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He arrived days ago, but Ventura Alvarado already sounds smitten. After nearly a decade in Mexico City with Club America, Alvarado was transferred to Santos Laguna in the offseason. Unlike Mexico City, his new hometown, Torreon, was not named the New York Times' Top Place to Visit in 2016, is not known as a cosmopolitan capital of culture, does not house any restaurants from the World's Best Restaurant list.
But for Alvarado the city of 600,000 has everything he needs.
"Sometimes in Mexico City, it’s stressful. There’s a lot of traffic in the city, there are some ugly streets.