Francisco Almaca

Goalkeeper - Kifisia U20
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Francisco Almaca

52 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Every point is an argument now for Kifisia

Position 13 and 13 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Joel Roca rejects the move

Kifisia had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Olympiacos, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kifisia

Jorge Pombo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

Kifisia rebuffed over Zois Karargyris

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AEK have kept their man, and Kifisia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A row about effort at Kifisia

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Ché Nunnely

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

Transfer targets

Kifisia ask about Alynho Haïdara

A loan enquiry to Mainz 05: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

Francisco Almaca still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Kifisia would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

The dugout

A door opens for Konstantinos Apostolakis

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

  • Squad The training reports on Benny are not good
  • The dugout David Simón keeps his manager's vote
Back issues
51 Edition

The Kifisia Courier

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Kifisia has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Francisco Almaca arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Francisco Almaca has, at Kifisia, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

A falling-out at Kifisia

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Lautaro Torres

Kifisia asked and Málaga said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Apostolos Tsilingiris has improved at 26, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

A row about effort at Kifisia

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

Transfer targets

A loan move for Joel Roca is in the works

Kifisia have made the call to Olympiacos. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

Kifisia ask about Zois Karargyris

A loan enquiry to AEK: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Kifisia try to borrow Vasilis Kakionis

Panetolikos have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief