The MEAP Nisou Chronicle
Match13 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for MEAP Nisou
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad15 Feb 2027
6 saves: Pantelis Michail was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A falling-out at MEAP Nisou
Luka Ivanov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match13 Feb 2027
A bad afternoon for MEAP Nisou against Ethnikos Latsion
0‑2 to Ethnikos Latsion, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Matheus Bambu
“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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Ioannis Alexandrou: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
When it matters, Jefferson plays
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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Jefferson knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at MEAP Nisou, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad15 Feb 2027
This league is too small for Donaldo Açka
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. MEAP Nisou will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
In brief
- Looking ahead Jack Savvidis goes back to face Spartakos Kitiou
- Squad A season on the outside for Matías Verdún
- Market The Matías Verdún question follows MEAP Nisou around