The Persita Courier
Squad6 Feb 2040
A knee injury of the worst kind for Eric Kahata
56 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Persita lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad6 Feb 2040
Falah Al-Shamri breaks a bone — 66 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 66 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match4 Feb 2040
The wait goes on for Persita
4 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.
Boardroom6 Feb 2040
Graduation day at Persita
6 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.
Squad6 Feb 2040
Words at Persita training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thamer Al-Zahrani 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.
Market6 Feb 2040
Persita promote Ricky Jaya from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ricky Jaya has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market6 Feb 2040
Persita promote Marinus Abimanyu from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marinus Abimanyu has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market6 Feb 2040
One of our own: Evan Pratama joins the Persita first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Evan Pratama is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market6 Feb 2040
Bagus Pato steps up from the Persita academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bagus Pato has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for Persita against Persis
- Boardroom A promise the Persita board did not keep
- Squad Kurniawan Pratama in a row with a teammate