Roberts Bočs

Attacking Midfielder (R) - IA
3 Jan 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Roberts Bočs

96 Edition

The IA Gazette

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Omar Sowe

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Guðmundur Þórarinsson breaks a bone — 134 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 134 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Árni Marinó Einarsson keeps IA in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Mahmoud Shedid Qenawi says IA went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

Nobody wants to play IA right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Omar Sowe 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 IA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Haukur Andri Haraldsson at his very best

Marked 9.45. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at IA.

The terraces

IA supporters have found a favourite in Haukur Andri Haraldsson

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Haukur Andri Haraldsson has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

IA see off Keflavik

Three points for IA, 1‑0 the final word against Keflavik in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

Back issues
92 Edition

The IA Gazette

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ómar Björn Stefánsson breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Dimitris Kolovetsios hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what IA can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at IA

Olav Veum 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.

In brief

  • Squad Words at IA training over how hard people work
  • Squad When it matters, Viktor Jónsson plays
  • Market IA put Roberts Bočs up for sale
  • Boardroom The IA production line keeps running