Bjorn Pace

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Marsaxlokk U20
30 Nov 2026
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Marked for Bjorn Pace

10 Edition

The Marsaxlokk Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Oct 2026

Dodô breaks a bone — 79 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 79 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match30 Sep 2026

Marsaxlokk bow out of the cup

Mosta go through and Marsaxlokk go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Christoffer Mafoumbi keeps Marsaxlokk in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Joseph Arumala, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.95

A mark of 7.95 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at Marsaxlokk training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Domantas Šimkus 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 terraces5 Oct 2026

The crowd has taken to Joseph Arumala

At 20 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.

Match3 Oct 2026

Joseph Arumala sends Marsaxlokk past Hibernians

It finished 2‑0, and it was Joseph Arumala’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Marsaxlokk.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Bjorn Pace

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Wages eat 138% of everything Marsaxlokk earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

  • Player ratings James Kirby was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • Squad Joseph Arumala is the division's best young player this month
  • The dugout Redon Mihana gets it from the manager
Back issues
6 Edition

The Marsaxlokk Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad7 Sep 2026

107 days out for Dodô after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Marsaxlokk will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Both of them Joseph Arumala's — 8.76

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.76, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Marsaxlokk close the window on a squad of their own making

12 in and 0 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.

Match5 Sep 2026

Marsaxlokk get the job done against Gzira United

A 3‑1 win over Gzira United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Domantas Šimkus 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 terraces7 Sep 2026

Marsaxlokk supporters have found a favourite in Rasmus Lindén

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Rasmus Lindén 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 ratings7 Sep 2026

James Kirby was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.79. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

The window shuts on the Julani Archibald deal

Marsaxlokk ran out of time with Valletta. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

An own goal to forget for Bjorn Pace

The one goal a footballer does not get to celebrate and does not get to forget either. His name is in the wrong column and nothing about it was meant.

In brief

4 Edition

The Marsaxlokk Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Aug 2026

A fracture rules Dodô out for 121 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Marsaxlokk will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Marsaxlokk baulk at the price for Julani Archibald

Valletta wanted more than $16.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Marsaxlokk

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Domantas Šimkus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Marcelo

Marsaxlokk asked and Sliema Wanderers said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Marsaxlokk

Leandro Aguirre 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Bjorn Pace signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bjorn Pace and Marsaxlokk agree another 3 years.

Looking ahead24 Aug 2026

A reunion for Domantas Šimkus

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Hamrun Spartans in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Bjorn Pace

“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 dugout24 Aug 2026

Thomas Mifsud knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Marsaxlokk, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

3 Edition

The Marsaxlokk Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Aug 2026

Dodô breaks a bone — 128 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 128 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Marsaxlokk

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

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

An offer of $16.0K for Julani Archibald

Marsaxlokk have gone to Valletta with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Matías García 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 dugout17 Aug 2026

Jake Ghio 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

This league is too small for Joseph Arumala

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Marsaxlokk will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

In brief