Ezequiel Vidal

Left Midfielder - PSIM
15 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ezequiel Vidal

2 Edition

The PSIM Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Adi Eko Jayanto turns down PSIM

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Words exchanged at PSIM

Adrián Dalmau and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings

Ezequiel Vidal beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

Madura United tell PSIM: Ilhamsyah is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Raka Cahyana

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Market

One of our own: Dimas Firmansyah joins the PSIM first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dimas Firmansyah is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Andri Hardiyanto joins the PSIM first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andri Hardiyanto is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

PSIM promote Ahmad Hardiyanto from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ahmad Hardiyanto has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Witan Beckham joins the PSIM first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Witan Beckham is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

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1 Edition

The PSIM Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Andi Irfan puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at PSIM, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Ezequiel Vidal signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ezequiel Vidal commits to PSIM for another 3 years.

Squad

A falling-out at PSIM

Adrián Dalmau and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

A bad afternoon for PSIM against Madura United

1‑2 to Madura United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Ezequiel Vidal in the eights

A performance of 8.31 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Rio Hardiawan 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yusaku Yamadera

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

Market

Still no ink between PSIM and Franco Ramos Mingo

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at PSIM, another week without a signature from Franco Ramos Mingo.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Kurniawan Hardiyanto to a room that had heard them before.

In brief