The Atlantas Herald
Squad8 Mar 2027
Edgar Mendoza damages knee ligaments — 57 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 57 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Edgar Mendoza stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Edgar Mendoza and Atlantas agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Marlon Ugarte 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 Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Atlantas
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Darius Satkus joins the Atlantas first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Darius Satkus is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
Saulius Sernas steps up from the Atlantas academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Saulius Sernas 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Fiodor Paulauskas steps up from the Atlantas academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fiodor Paulauskas 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Atlantas promote Tomas Girdvainis from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tomas Girdvainis has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match6 Mar 2027
Atlantas and Siauliai take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Squad Alexey Tkhagalegov knocks on the manager's door
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Aidas Mikoliunas
- Player ratings Yukiyoshi Karashima spends the afternoon fouling