Riswan Lauhin

Central Defender - Retired
14 Nov 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for Riswan Lauhin

281 Edition

The Bali United Post

15 Dec 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Mike Hauptmeijer breaks a bone — 92 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 92 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Arief Catur damages knee ligaments — 87 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 87 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Kakang Rudianto asks to leave Bali United

“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

Jort van der Sande 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 Bali United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Jordy Bruijn 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.

Boardroom

95% of the income goes out in wages at Bali United

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.

In brief

Back issues
244 Edition

The Pyunik Chronicle

31 Mar 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 11 of the 38 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Market

Uesli Arapi 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 The request is on a desk at Pyunik, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Karen Hakobyan

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Karen Hakobyan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Pyunik the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Pyunik

Eric Ocansey 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

Lucas Villela 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.

Match

Urartu take the points off Pyunik

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Lucas Villela

“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.

Squad

Riswan Lauhin wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Pyunik know it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Allan Rodríguez

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

In brief

237 Edition

The Pyunik Chronicle

10 Feb 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Sergiy Vakulenko out for 33 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pyunik will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Antonio González asks to leave Pyunik

“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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Ararat Karapetyan

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ararat Karapetyan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Pyunik the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Eric Ocansey 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 Pyunik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Pyunik training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Villela 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.

Market

Ararat expected to open talks for Mkhitar Sarkisov

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Pyunik will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief