Anton Lang

Defensive Midfielder - Lugano
22 Aug 2032
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Marked for Anton Lang

313 Edition

The Lugano Chronicle

26 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad26 Jul 2032

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rayan Raveloson

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

Market26 Jul 2032

Terms done: Joshua Frau is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Sion waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Lugano is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market26 Jul 2032

Steven N'Guessan asks to leave Lugano

“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.

Market26 Jul 2032

Empoli come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Lugano did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad26 Jul 2032

Words exchanged at Lugano

Mattia Zanotti 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.

Squad26 Jul 2032

Real improvement from Anton Lang at Lugano

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Anton Lang is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad26 Jul 2032

A row about effort at Lugano

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hannes Delcroix was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match24 Jul 2032

A bad afternoon for Lugano against Grasshopper

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

Player ratings26 Jul 2032

Daniel Dos Santos in the eights

A performance of 8.24 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

Back issues
297 Edition

The Lugano Chronicle

5 Apr 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Apr 2032

A knee injury of the worst kind for Hannes Delcroix

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

Boardroom5 Apr 2032

Lugano spell it out for Interim Coach

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Squad5 Apr 2032

David Von Ballmoos signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” David Von Ballmoos and Lugano agree another 2 years.

Squad5 Apr 2032

Words exchanged at Lugano

Mattia Zanotti 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.

Squad5 Apr 2032

A row about effort at Lugano

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yanis Cimignani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market5 Apr 2032

Still no ink between Lugano and Antonio Verinac

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

In brief

287 Edition

The Lugano Chronicle

26 Jan 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom26 Jan 2032

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Lugano

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market26 Jan 2032

Víctor Rofino 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 Lugano, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad26 Jan 2032

Tempers go at Lugano

Mattia Zanotti 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.

Squad26 Jan 2032

Hannes Delcroix 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.

The dugout26 Jan 2032

Yanis Cimignani has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Lugano 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.

Squad26 Jan 2032

No place for Philipp Möller in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Lugano are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

285 Edition

The Lugano Chronicle

12 Jan 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market12 Jan 2032

Florian Rombogouera 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 Lugano, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets12 Jan 2032

Sankara Karamoko will not be coming to Lugano

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Wolfsberger AC is saying, and nobody at Lugano is enjoying the guessing.

Market12 Jan 2032

So close: Francesco Ruberto’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Grasshopper moved on, Francesco Ruberto reports back to Lugano, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad12 Jan 2032

A falling-out at Lugano

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

Squad12 Jan 2032

Words at Lugano training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yanis Cimignani 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.

Boardroom12 Jan 2032

Lugano beat the market to Mauricio Godoy from Luzern

Luzern will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Mauricio Godoy has pre-agreed a move to Lugano, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Transfer targets12 Jan 2032

Lugano ask about Federico Ragnoli Galli

A loan enquiry to Real Sociedad: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market12 Jan 2032

Lugano buy the years ahead of Anton Lang

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market12 Jan 2032

The Emir Kuhinja conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Luzern will make the call about Emir Kuhinja this week. Lugano have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief