Marked for Elias Risp
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad1 Feb 2027
“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; Ekenäs IF are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Ekenäs IF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nasiru Mohammed 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Ekenäs IF
Axel Sandbacka 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.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Ekenäs IF
Matias Paavola 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Saidou Bah commits to Ekenäs IF for another 4 years.
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Upbeat
Squad28 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 Ekenäs IF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Ekenäs IF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elias Risp 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Squad30 Nov 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 Ekenäs IF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Ekenäs IF can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Ekenäs IF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elias Risp was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ekenäs IF lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Ekenäs IF
Matias Paavola 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Ekenäs IF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elias Risp 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ekenäs IF lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ekenäs IF are still strangers to each other
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Elias Risp 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.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nasiru Mohammed damages knee ligaments — 84 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 84 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.
Match9 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Ekenäs IF
0‑2 against KuPS, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oliver Heino, and the manager let it.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Ekenäs IF, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Joni Lod faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Joni Lod after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Ekenäs IF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elias Risp was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Ekenäs IF could get for him.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nasiru Mohammed damages knee ligaments — 117 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 117 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Ekenäs IF close the window on a squad of their own making
18 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of David Agbo has come up in conversations Ekenäs IF were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Matias Paavola and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AC Oulu have kept their man, and Ekenäs IF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad17 Aug 2026
David Agbo 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Elias Risp and Ekenäs IF agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Daniel Henareh is in the works
Ekenäs IF have made the call to GIF Sundsvall. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.