The Sion Gazette
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Sion
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Sion
Ilyas Chouaref 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 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Sion
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Franck Surdez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Baltazar gets it from the manager
“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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Silvan Aebischer steps up from the Sion academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Silvan Aebischer has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Xherdan Freuler joins the Sion first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Xherdan Freuler is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Théo Berdayes
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Fabián Ahumada signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fabián Ahumada commits to Sion for another 3 years.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Noé Sow
7.41, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Sion had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Squad Fabián Ahumada is a square peg at Sion
- The dugout No place in the plan for Baltazar