Etien Botonjić

Goalkeeper - Achyronas-Onisilos
7 Mar 2027
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16 Edition

The Achyronas-Onisilos Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Fran Cifuentes out for 16 days

16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Achyronas-Onisilos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

69 days out for Martim Águas after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Achyronas-Onisilos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Bojan Brać 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 Achyronas-Onisilos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Achyronas-Onisilos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Magno Cruz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Erick Gabriel

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

Market

The Jetmir Krasniqi story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Jetmir Krasniqi signs something — a contract at Achyronas-Onisilos or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Achyronas-Onisilos Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Fran Cifuentes damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

76 days out for Martim Águas after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Achyronas-Onisilos will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

9 saves: Bojan Brać was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

A hiding for Achyronas-Onisilos

Beaten 0‑3 by Omonia 29M, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

Tempers go at Achyronas-Onisilos

Bojan Brać 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.

The dugout

Magno Cruz 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.

Player ratings

Midana Sambú was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Achyronas-Onisilos dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market

Achyronas-Onisilos and Tiago Baptista are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief