Pedro Pires

Central Midfielder - Anorthosis
1 Jan 2030
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Marked for Pedro Pires

170 Edition

The Anorthosis Chronicle

29 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout29 Oct 2029

Pedro Pires: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Anorthosis have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad29 Oct 2029

Andreas Chrysostomou 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 Anorthosis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad29 Oct 2029

Words at Anorthosis training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Clifford Aboagye is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings29 Oct 2029

Babacar Dione was the difference for Anorthosis

Marked 7.95. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout29 Oct 2029

A promise honoured for Andreas Chrysostomou

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Anorthosis told Andreas Chrysostomou something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Match27 Oct 2029

Anorthosis share the spoils with Ethnikos Achnas

A 1‑1 draw with Ethnikos Achnas leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout29 Oct 2029

Pieros Ioannou on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Pieros Ioannou after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout29 Oct 2029

No hiding place for Jhonatan Lima

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

Looking ahead29 Oct 2029

A reunion for Babacar Dione

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Apollon in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief

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154 Edition

The Anorthosis Chronicle

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad9 Jul 2029

Sim Thandi damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.

Market9 Jul 2029

Terms done: Otelo Silva is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Ethnikos Achnas waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Anorthosis is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market9 Jul 2029

Nuğay Rəşidov 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 Anorthosis can pretend not to have heard.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Dimitris Kourbelis signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dimitris Kourbelis commits to Anorthosis for another 2 years.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Words exchanged at Anorthosis

Danilo Mitrović 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.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Real improvement from Pedro Pires at Anorthosis

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Pedro Pires is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

The dugout9 Jul 2029

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The dugout9 Jul 2029

No hiding place for Vasilis Papafotis

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

The dugout9 Jul 2029

Dimitris Kourbelis has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Anorthosis will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

141 Edition

The Anorthosis Chronicle

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market9 Apr 2029

Konstantinos Sergiou asks to leave Anorthosis

“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.

Squad9 Apr 2029

A falling-out at Anorthosis

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

Squad9 Apr 2029

Emil Bergström 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.

The dugout9 Apr 2029

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The dugout9 Apr 2029

When it matters, Clifford Aboagye 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.

Market9 Apr 2029

Anorthosis and Santiago Sánchez 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.

The dugout9 Apr 2029

The manager makes Antonis Katsiaris a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Anorthosis. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout9 Apr 2029

Santiago Sánchez 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 Anorthosis, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market9 Apr 2029

Kiko runs his contract down

6 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Anorthosis money.

In brief

  • Squad More bad news for Kiko
  • Squad The penny has dropped for Pedro Pires
  • Match Nothing left to play for but pride at Anorthosis
133 Edition

The Anorthosis Chronicle

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match10 Feb 2029

No end in sight to Anorthosis's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Anorthosis has to find a result from somewhere.

Match10 Feb 2029

AE Kition end the Anorthosis run at 8

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Match10 Feb 2029

Anorthosis cannot find the net

4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Words exchanged at Anorthosis

Danilo Mitrović 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.

Squad12 Feb 2029

A row about effort at Anorthosis

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

Match10 Feb 2029

AE Kition take the points off Anorthosis

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout12 Feb 2029

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Boardroom12 Feb 2029

Inquest at Anorthosis

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

The dugout12 Feb 2029

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Fotis Laban left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief