Roberto Pitio

Striker - Aswan
14 Oct 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Roberto Pitio

11 Edition

The Aswan Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ramadan Hassan

27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aswan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

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

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

Squad

Ahmed Menshawi is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Home is on Francisco Rosa Zacarías's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Aswan are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Roberto Pitio 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 Aswan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Aswan come up short against Al Gaish

Al Gaish left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

Back issues
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The Aswan Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 33 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Match

6 matches without a win for Aswan

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Aswan are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Abdelrahman Magdy is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Islam Gamal 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 Aswan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Aswan come up short against El Dakhleya

El Dakhleya left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Steve Hoffman gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Taoufik Ijrouten

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Cyriaque Sylla dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings

An afternoon Roberto Pitio will want back

Marked 5.66. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

In brief

4 Edition

The Aswan Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Belal Gamal asks to leave Aswan

“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.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Steve Hoffman

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Words at Aswan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Steve Hoffman is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Tempers go at Aswan

Roberto Pitio 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.

Squad

Khaled Walid gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Rudi Castro leaves them behind him

Shots: 5. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief