Marked for Eric Herensperger
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match30 Jan 2027
8 unbeaten for Kifisia
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Kifisia did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Patrik Mijić 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.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Marked 9.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“I watch every Kifisia game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Metalist runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Kifisia count the cost of losing Rhuan
36 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match30 Jan 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Panserraikos leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market11 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and Kifisia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Jorge Pombo 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.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.20, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match9 Jan 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jorge Pombo. 1‑0 against AEL Larisa, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
One of those days for Benny
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.19, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joel Valdemarín, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Jorge Pombo 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Kifisia come up short against OFI
OFI left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
231% of the income goes out in wages at Kifisia
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Benny in the eights
A performance of 8.55 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cheick Oumar Konaté, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Eric Herensperger and Kifisia agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market5 Oct 2026
At 35, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
In brief
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Market
Experience through the door at Kifisia
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Player ratings
Miguel Tavares changes it off the bench
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The terraces
The press have found their man in Benny