The Andorra Chronicle
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Héctor Bracamonte out for 76 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Andorra will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market23 Aug 2027
Andorra sell Alemão for $18.5M
Alemão has left for VfL Wolfsburg in a $18.5M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market23 Aug 2027
Manu Nieto is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Andorra is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market23 Aug 2027
Pau López attracts admirers
The name of Pau López has come up in conversations Andorra were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The step up is real for Aingeru Olabarrieta
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Pol Gallardo keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andorra may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Andorra
Raúl Asencio 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Pau López 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
4 academy graduates step up at Andorra
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
In brief
- Boardroom The numbers do not look good at Andorra
- Transfer targets Andorra rebuffed over Dani Gómez
- Match Andorra come up short against Zaragoza