Baboye Traoré

Defensive Midfielder - UTA Arad
1 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Baboye Traoré

11 Edition

The UTA Arad Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alexandru Roşca 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 UTA Arad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Marinos Tzionis signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marinos Tzionis commits to UTA Arad for another 3 years.

Squad

A row about effort at UTA Arad

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Marko Stolnik

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

Squad

The formation has left Baboye Traoré behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. UTA Arad will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

Marinos Tzionis knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at UTA Arad, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The UTA Arad Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Vladimir Screciu 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 UTA Arad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Fabiano Cibi is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

At last: UTA Arad win one

6 matches without a win, and then this, against Farul Constanța. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Match

UTA Arad find a way past Farul Constanța

Farul Constanța made UTA Arad work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

UTA Arad lose Dario Huc

17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Dmytro Pospielov 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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Hakim Abdallah

A mark of 7.76, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout

Cosmin Maxim: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

Market

UTA Arad bring in an old head

Baboye Traoré is 36 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief