Andrei Alba

Defensive Midfielder - Persis
27 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Andrei Alba

8 Edition

The Persis Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Vukašin Vraneš 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 Persis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

6 unbeaten for Persis

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Persis did not have in the autumn.

Squad

A row about effort at Persis

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dimitri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Persis get the job done against Dewa United

A 2‑1 win over Dewa United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

200 appearances for Miroslav Maričić

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

The dugout

Septian Bagaskara 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

Miroslav Maričić was the difference for Persis

Marked 7.73. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

Andri Hardiyanto has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Andri Hardiyanto on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

Febri Hariyadi gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Febri Hariyadi is on it.

In brief

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The Persis Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The small margins put Persis out

Out, 1‑1 to Semen Padang, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Market

Faqih Maulana 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 Persis, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Persis go back to the board over Rangga Muslim

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $10.0K — a club that wants Rangga Muslim enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Persis walk away from Rangga Muslim

$10.0K was the most the club would pay and Dewa United were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Dimitri 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Muhammad Natsir

Persis asked and Dewa United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Tempers go at Persis

Andrei Alba 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 ratings

The kick that got away from Abu Kamara

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

Player ratings

Feby Eka Putra stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.52 on the card, and the Persis support went home talking about one name.

In brief