Sun Xiaobin

Central Defender - Bhayangkara Presisi
11 Jun 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Sun Xiaobin

85 Edition

The Bhayangkara Presisi Herald

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Bhayangkara Presisi's wait for a win

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

Squad

Bernard Henri Doumbia wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Bhayangkara Presisi can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Milan Ristovski

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A falling-out at Bhayangkara Presisi

Milan Ristovski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Bhayangkara Presisi training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Allano 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

Bhayangkara Presisi come up short against Persis

Persis left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Sun Xiaobin for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Bhayangkara Presisi will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Ahmad Lilipaly to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Bhayangkara Presisi

Something was said to Rodrigo Endrio and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

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The Bhayangkara Presisi Herald

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Allano

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Mauricio Vera 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 Bhayangkara Presisi know it.

Squad

A falling-out at Bhayangkara Presisi

Milan Ristovski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Moisés Gaúcho wants to finish where he started

Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and Bhayangkara Presisi now know that too.

Squad

Sun Xiaobin gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Sun Xiaobin has just signed for Bhayangkara Presisi, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

Chacarita Juniors tell Bhayangkara Presisi: Ezequiel Gerez is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Player ratings

Firza Andika takes the honours

Marked 7.10 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Bhayangkara Presisi had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Ahmad Lilipaly was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Bhayangkara Presisi dressing room was either.

The dugout

No hiding place for Achmad Iqbal Bachtiar

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

In brief

45 Edition

The PSIM Sentinel

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Kurniawan Ajie out for 112 days

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

Market

Jop van der Avert has said yes to Persija

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. PSIM have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Match

A hiding for PSIM

Beaten 0‑3 by Bhayangkara Presisi, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at PSIM

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at PSIM is running low.

Market

Sun Xiaobin asks to leave PSIM

“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

Adrián Dalmau wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at PSIM can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

A falling-out at PSIM

Franco Ramos Mingo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Ezequiel Vidal beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A row about effort at PSIM

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jop van der Avert was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief