Ivano Ora

Central Midfielder - Lillestrom
27 Sep 2028
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Ivano Ora

113 Edition

The Lillestrom Courier

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Lillestrom

Pontus Dahlberg 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.

Squad

Words at Lillestrom training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Krygård 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.

Match

Lillestrom see off Stabaek

Three points for Lillestrom, 2‑1 the final word against Stabaek in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

Lillestrom supporters have found a favourite in Kparobo Arierhi

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Kparobo Arierhi 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Eric Kitolano

“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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Davíð Snær Jóhannsson at his very best

Marked 8.06. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Lillestrom.

In brief

Back issues
94 Edition

The Lillestrom Courier

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The small margins put Lillestrom out

Out, 0‑0 to Haugesund, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

Gustav Nyheim 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 Lillestrom this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Lillestrom training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Krygård 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.

Squad

Kparobo Arierhi 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.

Squad

Lillestrom lose Bjorn Bohinen

32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings

Felix Vá runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

90 Edition

The Lillestrom Courier

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Gustav Nyheim scores twice — 9.78

Two goals and a mark of 9.78 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Kparobo Arierhi, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.04

A mark of 8.04 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Tempers go at Lillestrom

Kevin Krygård 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.

Match

Lillestrom get the job done against IK Start

A 3‑2 win over IK Start, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Words at Lillestrom training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nemanja Radoja 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Gustav Nyheim

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

No hiding place for Eric Kitolano

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

Match

No time for IK Start to settle

The goal that put IK Start ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Lillestrom equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

Squad

Jovanny Rahman wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Lillestrom know it.

In brief

88 Edition

The Hajduk Split Post

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Alberto Del Moral raises the bar for Hajduk Split

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Hajduk Split heard it as anything else.

Squad

Hugo Guillamón 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 Hajduk Split this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Alberto Del Moral 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.

Loan watch

Bruno Mišura counts the days

“I watch every Hajduk Split game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Zadar runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Yuki Kakita has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Hajduk Split will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

Šimun Hrgović loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Šimun Hrgović. Hajduk Split will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

In brief