The HIFK Courier
Match15 Apr 2028
31 matches without a win for HIFK
The run now stands at 31, and the questions being asked around HIFK are no longer polite ones.
Match15 Apr 2028
16 matches without a goal for HIFK
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 16 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Nobody could get near Mohammed Al-Zaid
Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Thomas Grøgaard 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 HIFK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
Graduation day at HIFK
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Words at HIFK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Ilić 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.
Market17 Apr 2028
One of our own: Daniel Lam joins the HIFK first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Lam is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Apr 2028
HIFK promote Oliver Uronen from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oliver Uronen 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.
Market17 Apr 2028
HIFK promote Aleksi Lod from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Aleksi Lod 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.
In brief
- Market Robin Hoskonen steps up from the HIFK academy
- Match IFK Mariehamn take the points off HIFK
- Squad Tiquinho dropped after a run of poor form