Ildi Gruda

Striker - Egnatia Rrogozhinë
9 Oct 2027
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Marked for Ildi Gruda

59 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

Nobody could get near Afonso Rodrigues

Successful dribbles: 48. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match11 Sep 2027

Egnatia Rrogozhinë throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Vllaznia Shkodër the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Egnatia Rrogozhinë will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

Both of them Nikola Burić's — 8.41

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.41, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Real improvement from Denis Shera at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Denis Shera is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Guillem Jaime 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.

Match11 Sep 2027

Egnatia Rrogozhinë make home a hard place to visit

10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Levan Tandilashvili has improved at 24, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad13 Sep 2027

No hiding place for Fernando Medeiros

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

Market13 Sep 2027

Kastriot Selmani told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kastriot Selmani has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Egnatia Rrogozhinë.

In brief

Back issues
58 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match4 Sep 2027

Afonso Rodrigues wins it after the whistle should have gone

94 minutes played. Afonso Rodrigues found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Tirana went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Soumaïla Bakayoko keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Egnatia Rrogozhinë may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market6 Sep 2027

Juan Herrera hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Egnatia Rrogozhinë can pretend not to have heard.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Ildi Gruda stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ildi Gruda and Egnatia Rrogozhinë agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Fernando Medeiros 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

A late step up for Alessandro Albanese

At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Match4 Sep 2027

Egnatia Rrogozhinë make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

The terraces6 Sep 2027

The crowd has taken to Mohammed Yahaya

At 22 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.

Match4 Sep 2027

Afonso Rodrigues the difference as Egnatia Rrogozhinë beat Tirana

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Afonso Rodrigues. 1‑0 against Tirana, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

5 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Afonso Rodrigues

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market31 Aug 2026

Daniel Afful hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Egnatia Rrogozhinë can pretend not to have heard.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Guillem Jaime 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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom31 Aug 2026

Graduation day at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

2 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Florenc Kajolli steps up from the Egnatia Rrogozhinë academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Florenc Kajolli 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Egnatia Rrogozhinë promote Albion Dita from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Albion Dita 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Flamurtari join the queue for Jefferson Jefferson

Add another name to the list: Flamurtari have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jefferson Jefferson. The answer from Egnatia Rrogozhinë has not changed — yet.

Boardroom31 Aug 2026

No investment in the facilities at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Flamur Ruçi dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief