Marc Bombardó

Central Defender - Andorra
18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Marc Bombardó

7 Edition

The Andorra Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Aingeru Olabarrieta, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.13

A mark of 8.13 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Andorra say no — this time

The offer from Huesca for Nico Ratti was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The terraces

One of their own: Julian Rijkhoff

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Andorra find a way past Real Sociedad B

Real Sociedad B made Andorra work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout

Gabriel Toloza 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.

Market

Andorra sign Matheus Menezes, one for the future

Matheus Menezes is 19, and Andorra have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout

Ignacio Fernández: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.

The dugout

Andorra pick somebody else ahead of Matías Sánchez

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad

Young player of the week: Aingeru Olabarrieta

At 20 he was the best of everybody his age in the division for one weekend. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Andorra Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Marc Bombardó 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 The request is on a desk at Andorra, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Lautaro De León moves on

Racing Santander pay $5.3M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Jesús Owono moves on

Sevilla pay $3.3M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Madura United come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Andorra did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Stefan Džodić turns down Andorra

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Almería keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Match

Andorra come up short against Valladolid

Valladolid left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

13 new faces, and Andorra are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Ignacio Fernández to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings

Marc Cardona runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

4 Edition

The Andorra Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Joaquín gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Joaquín has just signed for Andorra, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Pau López

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Andorra say no — this time

The offer from Mirandés for Marc Bombardó was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Sebastián Driussi rejects the move

Andorra had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at River Plate, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Words exchanged at Andorra

Thomas Carrique 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.

Transfer targets

Andorra baulk at the price for Haitam Abaida

Málaga wanted more than $390.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market

Madura United join the queue for Luis Montilla

Add another name to the list: Madura United have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Luis Montilla. The answer from Andorra has not changed — yet.

Market

The Lautaro De León conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Racing Santander will make the call about Lautaro De León this week. Andorra have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad

No place for Joaquín in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Andorra are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief