Marked for Francisco Rivera
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Francisco Rivera and Leiknir agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Leiknir will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Leiknir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market9 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Marko Zivkovic
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marko Zivkovic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leiknir the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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Steady
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leiknir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Đorđe Vladisavljević 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Daði Bærings Halldórsson 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.
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Crisis
Match14 Sep 2026
Leiknir sink to position 12
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leiknir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leiknir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Leiknir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sindri Þór Ingimarsson 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Valur left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Fjolnir to sit and watch. I want to come back to Leiknir and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Market14 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Matías Fernández 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Colo-Colo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erick Wiemberg 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The young player of the month award goes to a 18-year-old at Colo-Colo who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.35, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 4.91, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Match5 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Colo-Colo?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against O'Higgins? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.