Umar Ekong

Goalkeeper - Skonto U18
9 Dec 2026
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Marked for Umar Ekong

7 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Sep 2026

Bachana Qazaishvili damages knee ligaments — 79 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 79 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.

Market14 Sep 2026

Kaspars Fertovs asks to leave Skonto

“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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at Skonto training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcis Stolcers 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 Sep 2026

Umar Ekong signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Umar Ekong commits to Skonto for another 3 years.

Loan watch14 Sep 2026

Marcis Jagodinskis wants to come home

“I did not go to Spartaks to sit and watch. I want to come back to Skonto and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Skonto

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

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Sep 2026

The knee: Bachana Qazaishvili out for 86 days

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

Market7 Sep 2026

Skonto say no — this time

The offer from Liepaja for Davis Kamess 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.

Market7 Sep 2026

Not going: Kaspars Fertovs stays at Skonto

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Ventspils had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market7 Sep 2026

Arturs Cauna puts it in writing

“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 Skonto, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market7 Sep 2026

So close: Arturs Fertovs’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Daugavpils moved on, Arturs Fertovs reports back to Skonto, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Skonto close the window on a squad of their own making

1 in and 6 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Luka Tasić will not be coming to Skonto

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Zalgiris is saying, and nobody at Skonto is enjoying the guessing.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Marius Klimavicius 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 Skonto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Spartaks tell Skonto: Vitalijs Rugins is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief