Risadinha

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Marked for Risadinha

146 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

14 May 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces14 May 2029

Supporters organise against the Astra board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad14 May 2029

Risadinha damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.

Squad14 May 2029

Alexandru Burca 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 Astra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 May 2029

Words at Astra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vlad Hagi 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.

Squad14 May 2029

Daniel Tanase stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Tanase and Astra agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market14 May 2029

The Ovidiu Balasa story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ovidiu Balasa signs something — a contract at Astra or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

Back issues
145 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

7 May 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match7 May 2029

Astra sink to position 10

7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad7 May 2029

The knee: Risadinha out for 25 days

25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Astra lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom7 May 2029

Ionut Marin has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Astra can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad7 May 2029

Alexandru Mihaila signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexandru Mihaila commits to Astra for another 2 years.

Squad7 May 2029

Tempers go at Astra

Radu Negru 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.

Squad7 May 2029

Vlad Hagi 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 dugout7 May 2029

John Okoye Ebuka loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is John Okoye Ebuka's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

The dugout7 May 2029

The manager makes an example of Marius Hagi

“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.

The dugout7 May 2029

Alexandru Burca knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexandru Burca trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

144 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad30 Apr 2029

Risadinha damages knee ligaments — 33 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 33 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.

Boardroom30 Apr 2029

Pressure builds in the Astra boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad30 Apr 2029

Tempers go at Astra

Ovidiu Balasa 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.

Squad30 Apr 2029

Mihai Stanciu 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 dugout30 Apr 2029

Alexandru Burca asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market30 Apr 2029

The Vlad Hagi story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Vlad Hagi signs something — a contract at Astra or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief