Bas Lang

Right Midfielder - Sparta Rotterdam U20
5 Sep 2036
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493 Edition

The Sparta Rotterdam Chronicle

7 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad7 Jan 2036

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bas Lang

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

Match5 Jan 2036

Chastening afternoon for Sparta Rotterdam

A 0‑7 beating by Ajax was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market7 Jan 2036

Amadou Ba 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 The request is on a desk at Sparta Rotterdam, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad7 Jan 2036

Maximiliano Galván breaks a bone — 44 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market7 Jan 2036

Utrecht come back empty-handed

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

Squad7 Jan 2036

Saúl Durán keeps Sparta Rotterdam in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

The dugout7 Jan 2036

Georginio Berghuis says Sparta Rotterdam went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad7 Jan 2036

Tempers go at Sparta Rotterdam

Patrick Berg 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.

Transfer targets7 Jan 2036

Devin Haen due for a Sparta Rotterdam medical

Everything agreed with Feyenoord, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

In brief

Back issues
492 Edition

The Sparta Rotterdam Chronicle

31 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad31 Dec 2035

The knee: Bas Lang out for 27 days

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

Squad31 Dec 2035

A fracture rules Maximiliano Galván out for 51 days

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

Player ratings31 Dec 2035

Patrick Berg goes up and wins it — 7.70

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.70 for the rest of it.

Squad31 Dec 2035

Amadou Ba 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 Sparta Rotterdam this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout31 Dec 2035

No hiding place for Saúl Durán

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

Boardroom31 Dec 2035

Wages eat 104% of everything Sparta Rotterdam earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad31 Dec 2035

Ben Stewart wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Sparta Rotterdam know it.

The dugout31 Dec 2035

Sparta Rotterdam keep their word to Marco Promes

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Match29 Dec 2035

Amadou Ba rescues a point for Sparta Rotterdam

It needed Amadou Ba to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Excelsior, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief