Dedi Beckham

Left Forward - Bali United U18
1 Jul 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Dedi Beckham

101 Edition

The Bali United Post

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Lucas Morelatto signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lucas Morelatto commits to Bali United for another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Bali United

Jort van der Sande and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Boris Kopitović the difference as Bali United beat Maluku Utara United

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Boris Kopitović. 2‑1 against Maluku Utara United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Bali United count the cost of losing Dedi Beckham

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Thijmen Goppel beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Thijmen Goppel is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Thijmen Goppel has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Market

Talks stall between Bali United and Dimitar Mitkov

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Boardroom

7 new boys at the Bali United academy

Signed today, seen by nobody for years, and one of them may one day be the reason the club exists. That is the whole of the argument for an academy, and it is a good one.

The dugout

A satisfied Witan Pato

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Witan Pato could afford to be generous.

In brief

Back issues
80 Edition

The Bali United Post

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

105 days out for Septian Bagaskara after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Bali United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Terms done: Jens Raven is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and PSBS Biak waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Bali United is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 7 in, 1 out at Bali United

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 7 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Jort van der Sande 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 Bali United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Bali United

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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Luigi Caccavo

Bali United asked and Juve Stabia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bali United against Arema

1‑2 to Arema, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

One of our own: Dedi Beckham joins the Bali United first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dedi Beckham is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Aditya Pato joins the Bali United first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aditya Pato is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief