Marlon Kumar

Central Defender - Nadi U20
23 Nov 2030
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Marked for Marlon Kumar

214 Edition

The Nadi Sentinel

2 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad2 Sep 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marlon Kumar

17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nadi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match28 Aug 2030

Cup progress for Nadi

A 3‑0 win over Rewa, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

The dugout2 Sep 2030

Liberato Bell keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Nadi may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Boardroom2 Sep 2030

Nadi close the window on a squad of their own making

13 in and 18 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.

Match28 Aug 2030

Nadi make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Nadi have 3 straight wins of it.

The dugout2 Sep 2030

Simon Moore frozen out at Nadi

This is not rotation. Simon Moore has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Nadi is pretending otherwise.

Squad2 Sep 2030

Rocky Junior 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 Nadi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces2 Sep 2030

The crowd has taken to Alex Nunes

At 23 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.

Match28 Aug 2030

Alex Nunes at the heart of a fast Nadi start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Alex Nunes in the middle of it, and Rewa unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

In brief

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The Nadi Sentinel

26 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad26 Aug 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marlon Kumar

24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nadi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market26 Aug 2030

Simon Moore hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nadi can pretend not to have heard.

Market26 Aug 2030

Nadi say no — this time

The offer from Rewa for Panapasa Tawakece was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market26 Aug 2030

James Fisher has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nadi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad26 Aug 2030

Tempers go at Nadi

Rocky Junior 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.

The dugout26 Aug 2030

The manager makes an example of Dantel Hodges

“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 dugout26 Aug 2030

Will Kennedy has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Nadi will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout26 Aug 2030

Simon Esosa Aibangbee knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Simon Esosa Aibangbee trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market26 Aug 2030

The Jimson Abana question follows Nadi around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jimson Abana’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

212 Edition

The Nadi Sentinel

19 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad19 Aug 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marlon Kumar

31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nadi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market19 Aug 2030

Panapasa Tawakece puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nadi, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad19 Aug 2030

Words exchanged at Nadi

Alex Nunes 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.

The dugout19 Aug 2030

Pauliasi Tulivou frozen out at Nadi

This is not rotation. Pauliasi Tulivou has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Nadi is pretending otherwise.

The dugout19 Aug 2030

Jimson Abana has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Nadi will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout19 Aug 2030

No hiding place for Erick Zungu

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Erick Zungu, and the manager let it.

In brief