Thanos Asmarianakis

Central Midfielder - Excelsior U20
1 Oct 2029
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112 Edition

The Excelsior Gazette

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match13 Sep 2028

The cup run ends for Excelsior

0‑1 against De Graafschap, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

The dugout18 Sep 2028

Mika Luijendijk keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Excelsior may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

Nobody could get near Robin Wijnaldum

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Tempers go at Excelsior

Özgür Aktaş 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.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Nikolai Rehnen 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.

Match16 Sep 2028

Kayden Wolff’s goal not enough for Excelsior

Kayden Wolff scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Ajax, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout18 Sep 2028

Özgür Aktaş 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.

Squad18 Sep 2028

200 appearances for Simon Janssen

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

The dugout18 Sep 2028

Ryan De Vrij faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ryan De Vrij after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

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111 Edition

The Excelsior Gazette

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom11 Sep 2028

Excelsior give the job to Ryan De Vrij

The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.

Market11 Sep 2028

Freek Entius hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Excelsior can pretend not to have heard.

Match9 Sep 2028

7 unbeaten for Excelsior

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Excelsior did not have in the autumn.

Squad11 Sep 2028

A falling-out at Excelsior

Özgür Aktaş and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Nikolai Rehnen 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.

Player ratings11 Sep 2028

Nobody could get near Gyan de Regt

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match9 Sep 2028

Excelsior find a way past De Graafschap

De Graafschap made Excelsior work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings11 Sep 2028

Noah Naujoks was the difference for Excelsior

Marked 7.67. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Gorazd Ristovski signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gorazd Ristovski and Excelsior agree another 4 years.

In brief