The Sharjah Chronicle
Match26 Oct 2026
Sharjah refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 16 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Igor Coronado yet — 8.12
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.12 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Luan Pereira
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Charles Pickel 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Sharjah find a way past Emirates Club
Emirates Club made Sharjah work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad26 Oct 2026
50 goals in the shirt for Saldanha
50 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Sharjah
Shaheen Abdulrahman and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
A satisfied Khalfan Al Naqbi
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Khalfan Al Naqbi could afford to be generous.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The weekend belonged to Kodjo Laba
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
In brief
- Looking ahead Khaled Ebraheim goes back to face Al Wahda
- The dugout When it matters, Cho Yu-Min plays
- The dugout Firas Ben Larbi has been promised minutes