Florian Baumgartner

Left Wingback - Haka
24 Oct 2035
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The Haka Gazette

22 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout22 Oct 2035

Thomas Christensen keeps the receipts

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

Market22 Oct 2035

Florian Baumgartner 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 Haka can pretend not to have heard.

Squad22 Oct 2035

Tempers go at Haka

Jaakko Moisio 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.

Squad22 Oct 2035

Bruninho 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 Haka know it.

Squad22 Oct 2035

Words at Haka training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emil Leveälahti 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.

Squad22 Oct 2035

Haka are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout22 Oct 2035

Olle Leonardsson gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout22 Oct 2035

Olle Leonardsson has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Haka 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 dugout22 Oct 2035

Eemeli Honkola knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Haka, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

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The Haka Gazette

30 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad30 Apr 2035

Aniello Urciuoli damages knee ligaments — 29 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 29 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market30 Apr 2035

Florian Baumgartner 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 Haka, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match28 Apr 2035

4 matches without a win for Haka

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Haka are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings30 Apr 2035

The game went through Sabur Ali — 6.71

Marked 6.71 on 15 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Squad30 Apr 2035

Viðar Elí Bjarnason arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Viðar Elí Bjarnason has, at Haka, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad30 Apr 2035

Sabur Ali signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sabur Ali commits to Haka for another 3 years.

Squad30 Apr 2035

Arttu Tulehmo 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 Haka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match28 Apr 2035

A bad afternoon for Haka against IF Gnistan

0‑1 to IF Gnistan, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout30 Apr 2035

Interim Coach faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Interim Coach after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief