The Bali United Post
Squad28 Jul 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kurniawan Darmawan
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bali United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Jul 2031
Mike Hauptmeijer decides it from twelve yards
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match23 Jul 2031
Bali United march on in the cup
Arema are out and Bali United go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market28 Jul 2031
Flavio Henrique asks to leave Bali United
“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.
Squad28 Jul 2031
Jordy Bruijn 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 Bali United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Jul 2031
Jort van der Sande 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.
Boardroom28 Jul 2031
Wages eat 124% of everything Bali United earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings28 Jul 2031
The kick that got away from Abzal Shomko
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
Match26 Jul 2031
No goals between Bali United and Persijap
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Persijap will be the happier side with the point.
In brief
- Market The Boris Kopitović story refuses to die
- Player ratings Jens Raven could not find anything
- Player ratings An afternoon Grzegorz Jozwiak will want back