Simon Widmer

Goalkeeper - Sion U20
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408 Edition

The Sion Gazette

22 May 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad22 May 2034

A knee injury of the worst kind for Simon Widmer

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

Match22 May 2034

Sion are in real trouble now

Position 10, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad22 May 2034

A fracture rules Felix Bacher out for 69 days

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

Market22 May 2034

Matías Escobar 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 Sion can pretend not to have heard.

Market22 May 2034

Stefan Smarkalev is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sion is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad22 May 2034

A falling-out at Sion

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

The dugout22 May 2034

The manager makes an example of Levi Acheampong

“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.

Squad22 May 2034

Words at Sion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joris Manquant 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 dugout22 May 2034

Cristian Carrara gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Cristian Carrara is on it.

In brief

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407 Edition

The Sion Gazette

15 May 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 May 2034

A knee injury of the worst kind for Simon Widmer

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

Squad15 May 2034

Felix Bacher breaks a bone — 76 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market15 May 2034

Ivan Tsygankov has one foot out of the door

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

Squad15 May 2034

Tempers go at Sion

Silas Huber 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.

Squad15 May 2034

Words at Sion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Levi Acheampong 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.

Market15 May 2034

Still no ink between Sion and Loun Srdanovic

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sion, another week without a signature from Loun Srdanovic.

The dugout15 May 2034

Haissem Hassan has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Sion 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 dugout15 May 2034

Julian Niehues 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 Julian Niehues trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout15 May 2034

The manager makes an example of Christopher Scott

“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.

In brief

406 Edition

The Sion Gazette

8 May 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad8 May 2034

The knee: Simon Widmer out for 28 days

28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sion lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad8 May 2034

Felix Bacher breaks a bone — 83 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market8 May 2034

Don-Angelo Konadu 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 Sion can pretend not to have heard.

Squad8 May 2034

Haissem Hassan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Haissem Hassan and Sion agree another 2 years.

Market8 May 2034

Lindsay Gutaj is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sion is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad8 May 2034

A falling-out at Sion

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

The dugout8 May 2034

No hiding place for Silas Huber

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

Market8 May 2034

Sion and Iván Morante are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout8 May 2034

When it matters, Iván Morante plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

405 Edition

The Sion Gazette

1 May 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad1 May 2034

The knee: Simon Widmer out for 35 days

35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sion lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad1 May 2034

A fracture rules Felix Bacher out for 90 days

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

Market1 May 2034

Christopher Scott asks to leave Sion

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market1 May 2034

Levi Acheampong wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Sion hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad1 May 2034

Words exchanged at Sion

Cristian Carrara 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.

Boardroom1 May 2034

Sion agree a free transfer for Mauricio Ponce

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad1 May 2034

Words at Sion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joris Manquant 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.

Market1 May 2034

Sion and Julian Niehues are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout1 May 2034

The manager makes an example of Corsin Konietzke

“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.

In brief

  • The dugout Loun Srdanovic has become a man the manager trusts
  • Market Experience through the door at Sion
  • The dugout Tomás Soares knocks on the manager’s door