Syaiful Asri

Striker - Semen Padang
12 Oct 2031
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Marked for Syaiful Asri

259 Edition

The Semen Padang Herald

14 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Jul 2031

Evan Irawan damages knee ligaments — 73 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 73 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.

Match12 Jul 2031

Chastening afternoon for Semen Padang

A 1‑4 beating by Maluku Utara United was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market14 Jul 2031

Syaiful Asri 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 Semen Padang can pretend not to have heard.

Squad14 Jul 2031

A falling-out at Semen Padang

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

Transfer targets14 Jul 2031

Semen Padang rebuffed over Talgat Dosmagambetov

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

The dugout14 Jul 2031

No hiding place for Kianz Froese

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

Boardroom14 Jul 2031

Doors closed at Semen Padang

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Boardroom14 Jul 2031

95% of the income goes out in wages at Semen Padang

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

The dugout14 Jul 2031

Kianz Froese is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

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224 Edition

The Semen Padang Herald

11 Nov 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad11 Nov 2030

Tempers go at Semen Padang

Jaime Giraldo 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.

Squad11 Nov 2030

Achmad Maulana 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 dugout11 Nov 2030

The manager makes an example of Stefano Supriadi

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market11 Nov 2030

The Kazaki Nakagawa talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Semen Padang know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout11 Nov 2030

Gil Revivo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Gil Revivo is on it.

Boardroom11 Nov 2030

The Semen Padang academy earns its keep

52 graduates, from a department now rated 9 out of 20. Nothing about the academy appears in a result, and nothing about the club’s future exists without it.

In brief

214 Edition

The Semen Padang Herald

2 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces2 Sep 2030

Anger at Semen Padang spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom2 Sep 2030

Semen Padang spell it out for Interim Coach

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Match31 Aug 2030

Nowhere to hide for Semen Padang

0‑3 against PSM, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad2 Sep 2030

7 saves: Muhamad Riyandi was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Boardroom2 Sep 2030

Belts tighten at Semen Padang

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

Boardroom2 Sep 2030

Window shuts: 22 in, 15 out at Semen Padang

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 22 arrived, 15 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Match31 Aug 2030

The wait goes on for Semen Padang

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The dugout2 Sep 2030

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Squad2 Sep 2030

Words exchanged at Semen Padang

Jaime Giraldo 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.

In brief