Marked for Jowell Carabalí
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad29 Oct 2040
120 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lucko lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match24 Oct 2040
3‑1 against Kayserispor, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Mihai Stanciu was at the centre of the description.
Player ratings29 Oct 2040
A brace, and Mihai Stanciu takes the afternoon — 7.99
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mihai Stanciu provided it, and the 7.99 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market29 Oct 2040
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lucko is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad29 Oct 2040
Tempers go at Lucko
Jowell Carabalí 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.
Match27 Oct 2040
A 2‑1 win over HNK Gorica, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad29 Oct 2040
Robin Xavi Simons 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 ratings29 Oct 2040
Roko Ban takes the honours
Marked 7.98 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Lucko had the best player on the pitch.
Squad29 Oct 2040
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Kirill Moiseev will call it something else in private.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Oct 2040
127 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lucko lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad22 Oct 2040
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match22 Oct 2040
Lucko are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 24 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match20 Oct 2040
The wait goes on for Lucko
5 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.
Squad22 Oct 2040
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Oct 2040
Words at Lucko training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robin Xavi Simons 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings10 Sep 2040
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.88 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market10 Sep 2040
Luka Lazovic 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 Lucko can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Sep 2040
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings10 Sep 2040
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Sep 2040
Words at Lucko training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robin Xavi Simons 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.
The terraces10 Sep 2040
Lucko supporters have found a favourite in Paul Vincent
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Paul Vincent has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match8 Sep 2040
HNK Vukovar 1991 made Lucko work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad10 Sep 2040
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andreas Lainer commits to Lucko for another 3 years.
Market10 Sep 2040
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Upbeat
Squad3 Sep 2040
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market3 Sep 2040
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Hrvatski Dragovoljac moved on, Alexandre Martins reports back to Lucko, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market3 Sep 2040
Only the photograph left for Paul Vincent
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Paul Vincent will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lucko the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market3 Sep 2040
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Lucko, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Sep 2040
Tempers go at Lucko
Jowell Carabalí 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.
Match1 Sep 2040
Imotski made Lucko work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces3 Sep 2040
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Alexandre Martins has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings3 Sep 2040
One of those days for Roko Ban
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad3 Sep 2040
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leander Boyata and Lucko agree another 3 years.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Lucko training over how hard people work
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Player ratings
Nobody could get near Beka Gvelesiani
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Market
The window shut and Roko Ban is still in the building
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Upbeat
Squad20 Aug 2040
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad20 Aug 2040
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market20 Aug 2040
Only the photograph left for Roko Ban
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Roko Ban will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lucko the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings20 Aug 2040
Age has not caught Kirill Moiseev yet — 7.84
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.84 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market20 Aug 2040
“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.
Squad20 Aug 2040
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lucko may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad20 Aug 2040
Tempers go at Lucko
Abdoul Salla Camara 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.
Match18 Aug 2040
NK Osijek made Lucko work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings20 Aug 2040
18 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad13 Aug 2040
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lucko will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market13 Aug 2040
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market13 Aug 2040
“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.
Squad13 Aug 2040
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market13 Aug 2040
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lucko they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Aug 2040
Tempers go at Lucko
Jowell Carabalí 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.
Player ratings13 Aug 2040
21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad13 Aug 2040
Florian Lindner has improved at 28, 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. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Player ratings13 Aug 2040
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad30 Jul 2040
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match28 Jul 2040
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad30 Jul 2040
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lucko will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market30 Jul 2040
Rick De Jong 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 Lucko can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings30 Jul 2040
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.94 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad30 Jul 2040
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jowell Carabalí and Lucko agree another 3 years.
Squad30 Jul 2040
Tempers go at Lucko
Abdoul Salla Camara 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 terraces30 Jul 2040
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Alexandre Martins has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings30 Jul 2040
Paul Vincent changes it off the bench
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Lucko had a different afternoon.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Jul 2040
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lucko will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market16 Jul 2040
The name of Alexandre Martins has come up in conversations Lucko were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market16 Jul 2040
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marius van der Raad will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lucko the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Jul 2040
Tempers go at Lucko
Jowell Carabalí 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.
Squad16 Jul 2040
Robin Xavi Simons 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.
Market16 Jul 2040
The Paul Vincent conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Istra 1961 will make the call about Paul Vincent this week. Lucko have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Jun 2040
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lucko will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market25 Jun 2040
Roko Ban has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lucko they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market25 Jun 2040
“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.
Market25 Jun 2040
Add another name to the list: HNK Vukovar 1991 have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Alexandre Martins. The answer from Lucko has not changed — yet.
Market25 Jun 2040
Lucko say no — this time
The offer from HNK Vukovar 1991 for Marius van der Raad was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad25 Jun 2040
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Lucko training over how hard people work
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Squad
Lucko keep their word to Roko Ban
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 May 2040
A knee injury of the worst kind for Devis Pacchioli
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lucko lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 May 2040
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lucko will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market28 May 2040
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market9 Apr 2040
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lucko can pretend not to have heard.
Squad9 Apr 2040
Tempers go at Lucko
Jowell Carabalí 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.
Squad9 Apr 2040
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom20 Feb 2040
The scrutiny sharpens at Lucko
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Lucko is running low.
Squad20 Feb 2040
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Feb 2040
Words at Lucko training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robin Xavi Simons 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom2 Jan 2040
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad2 Jan 2040
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market2 Jan 2040
“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.
Squad2 Jan 2040
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Lucko have had the benefit of it.
Market2 Jan 2040
Add another name to the list: Sesvete have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Alexandre Martins. The answer from Lucko has not changed — yet.
Squad2 Jan 2040
Tempers go at Lucko
Jowell Carabalí 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.
Squad2 Jan 2040
Robin Xavi Simons 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.
Market2 Jan 2040
Erik Isak placed on the list
Lucko have made Erik Isak available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market2 Jan 2040
Tin Grbic leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Tin Grbic leaves Lucko the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
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Boardroom
Lucko keep producing them
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Boardroom
Lucko were not finished after all
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad14 Nov 2039
A fracture rules Marco Martoccia out for 69 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lucko will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Nov 2039
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad14 Nov 2039
Tempers go at Lucko
Jowell Carabalí 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Oct 2039
A fracture rules Marco Martoccia out for 90 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lucko will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match24 Oct 2039
Every point is an argument now for Lucko
Position 8 and 15 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.
Boardroom24 Oct 2039
The numbers do not look good at Lucko
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad24 Oct 2039
Devis Pacchioli: 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.” Lucko have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad24 Oct 2039
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Oct 2039
The goals have deserted Lucko
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Lucko can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad24 Oct 2039
“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 ratings24 Oct 2039
A defender's afternoon for Lois Openda
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings24 Oct 2039
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 13 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
In brief
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Player ratings
Nobody could get near Roko Ban
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Match
Point won or two lost for Lucko?
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad17 Oct 2039
A fracture rules Marco Martoccia out for 97 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lucko will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad17 Oct 2039
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad17 Oct 2039
Tempers go at Lucko
Abdoul Salla Camara 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.
Squad17 Oct 2039
Robin Xavi Simons 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 terraces17 Oct 2039
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings17 Oct 2039
Lovro Krišto did the work nobody counts — 6.89
9 combined actions and 6.89. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad26 Sep 2039
A fracture rules Marco Martoccia out for 118 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lucko will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match26 Sep 2039
Lucko are in real trouble now
Position 8, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Boardroom26 Sep 2039
The numbers do not look good at Lucko
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad26 Sep 2039
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad26 Sep 2039
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Sep 2039
NK Osijek left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Aug 2039
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad8 Aug 2039
Boris Sucic breaks a bone — 24 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad8 Aug 2039
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lucko may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad8 Aug 2039
Tempers go at Lucko
Jowell Carabalí 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.
Match6 Aug 2039
The goals have deserted Lucko
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Lucko can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings8 Aug 2039
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market8 Aug 2039
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Lucko, another week without a signature from Alexandre Martins.
Market8 Aug 2039
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Marius van der Raad has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Lucko.
Player ratings8 Aug 2039
A defender's afternoon for Lois Openda
Defensive actions: 13. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Upbeat
Squad18 Jul 2039
Mattia Zamuner: 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.” Lucko have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Jul 2039
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Paul Vincent is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad18 Jul 2039
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Upbeat
Squad20 Jun 2039
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Jun 2039
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jowell Carabalí, and the manager let it.
Squad20 Jun 2039
Haukur Ingason 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Boardroom30 May 2039
Silverware for Lucko
They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.
Boardroom30 May 2039
Lucko are going up
Promotion, confirmed and mathematical, and a town that will not sleep much tonight. Whatever else this season had in it, it ends a division higher than it began.
Squad30 May 2039
A season's verdict on Alexandre Martins: the best of his age
Lucko have a 21-year-old the division has just voted its finest young footballer. The club's next problem is that everybody else now knows it too.
Squad30 May 2039
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Lucko have had the benefit of it.
Squad30 May 2039
He is 21, he is averaging 7.24, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Squad30 May 2039
Tempers go at Lucko
Jowell Carabalí 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.
In brief
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Boardroom
Lucko cannot sign anybody
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Boardroom
Lucko keep producing them
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad2 May 2039
He is 21, he is averaging 7.24, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Squad2 May 2039
Tempers go at Lucko
Jowell Carabalí 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.
Squad2 May 2039
The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Haukur Ingason, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
In brief
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Boardroom
The owner puts $113.3K into Lucko
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Boardroom
Lucko cannot sign anybody
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Squad
Alexandre Martins gets it from the manager
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Boardroom
Lucko keep producing them
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match11 Apr 2039
Lucko refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 40 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad11 Apr 2039
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Apr 2039
Haukur Ingason 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Mar 2039
A fracture rules Florian Lindner out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lucko will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match14 Mar 2039
Lucko up to position 1
40 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad14 Mar 2039
Tempers go at Lucko
Jowell Carabalí 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Feb 2039
A fracture rules Florian Lindner out for 46 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lucko will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match14 Feb 2039
Lucko refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 40 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad14 Feb 2039
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lucko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Feb 2039
A move Jowell Carabalí would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jowell Carabalí is living that version at Lucko, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad14 Feb 2039
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandre Martins, and the manager let it.
Market14 Feb 2039
Lucko shop where it costs nothing
Jowell Carabalí signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.