Andreas Wind

Right Back - Ceuta
19 May 2041
Sunday
Process

Marked for Andreas Wind

772 Edition

The Ceuta Gazette

13 May 2041
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jort Roovers keeps Ceuta in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Abou Bassinga yet — 8.23

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.23 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

The wait goes on for Ceuta

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Miguel Ferraresi goes up and wins it — 7.74

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 7.74 for the rest of it.

Squad

Words at Ceuta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marc Domènech 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.

Match

6 goals as Ceuta and Andorra go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Ceuta and Andorra, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

Tempers go at Ceuta

Tommaso Valenta 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.

Boardroom

Still nobody in the Ceuta dugout

12 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Squad

Andreas Wind stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Andreas Wind and Ceuta agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

Back issues
749 Edition

The Ceuta Gazette

3 Dec 2040
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Ceuta can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at Ceuta

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Player ratings

A brace, and Vladimir Cerny takes the afternoon — 8.37

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Vladimir Cerny provided it, and the 8.37 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

No end in sight to Ceuta's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ceuta has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Abou Bassinga 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 Ceuta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Ceuta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marc Domènech 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Ceuta against Oviedo

2‑3 to Oviedo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match

Ceuta hit back inside 3 minutes

Oviedo held the lead for 3 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Ceuta answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Marc Domènech

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

741 Edition

The Ceuta Gazette

8 Oct 2040
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Ceuta can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Match

Cruel end for Elche as Ceuta pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Ceuta scored in the 91th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at Ceuta

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad

A day Marc Domènech will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Marc Domènech yet — 9.46

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.46 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Vladimir Cerny asks to leave Ceuta

“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.

Squad

Abou Bassinga 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 Ceuta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Tom Wooster signs on for more

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

Squad

Words at Ceuta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marc Domènech 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.

In brief