Ricardo Rocha

Defensive Midfielder - Montana
27 Sep 2028
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99 Edition

The Montana Gazette

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match19 Jun 2028

Montana sink to position 15

25 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market19 Jun 2028

Kota Kuwabara asks to leave Montana

“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.

Squad19 Jun 2028

Antony Otero 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 Montana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

Back issues
88 Edition

The Montana Gazette

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Montana

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market3 Apr 2028

Lancine Bamba asks to leave Montana

“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.

Market3 Apr 2028

Only the photograph left for Jorginho Soares

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jorginho Soares will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Montana the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

Montana to lose Arsenio Valpoort for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Arsenio Valpoort has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad3 Apr 2028

Tempers go at Montana

Gašper Trdin 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.

Squad3 Apr 2028

Words at Montana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Philip Ejike 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.

In brief

81 Edition

The Montana Gazette

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market14 Feb 2028

Ivan Kokonov 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 Montana can pretend not to have heard.

Market14 Feb 2028

Arsenio Valpoort has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Montana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad14 Feb 2028

Gašper Trdin 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 Montana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Feb 2028

Words at Montana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Márcio Rosa 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.

Squad14 Feb 2028

Yunus Yılmaz signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yunus Yılmaz and Montana agree another 3 years.

Squad14 Feb 2028

No hiding place for Lyubomir Vasilev

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lyubomir Vasilev, and the manager let it.

In brief

76 Edition

The Montana Gazette

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings10 Jan 2028

Age has not caught Riku Sjöroos yet — 8.56

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.56 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market10 Jan 2028

Jorginho Soares is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Montana is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom10 Jan 2028

Montana to lose Jorginho Soares for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jorginho Soares has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Aleksandar Todorov 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 Montana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Words at Montana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Philip Ejike 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.

Match8 Jan 2028

Riku Sjöroos sends Montana past Septemvri

It finished 2‑1, and it was Riku Sjöroos’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Montana.

Player ratings10 Jan 2028

Nobody could get near Philip Ejike

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Antony Otero 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.

Market10 Jan 2028

The Petar Andreev conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Septemvri will make the call about Petar Andreev this week. Montana have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief