The Omonoia Courier
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Tugra Turhan, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.79
A mark of 8.79 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Carel Eiting goes up and wins it — 7.99
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 7.99 for the rest of it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Mihlali Mayambela beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market28 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Francis Uzoho
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Francis Uzoho will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Omonoia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match26 Sep 2026
Omonoia make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Omonoia have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Omonoia
Dimitris Kourbelis and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match26 Sep 2026
Omonoia find a way past Doxa
Doxa made Omonoia work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Fabiano
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fabiano, and the manager let it.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Tugra Turhan
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Player ratings Florin Tănase in the eights
- Match Omonoia keep winning on the road
- Squad 14 new faces, and Omonoia are still learning each other