The Sion Gazette
Squad24 Aug 2026
Anthony Racioppi 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 Sion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Franck Surdez 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Ilyas Chouaref was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.01. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Ali Kabacalman's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sion pick somebody else ahead of Dinis Rodrigues
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ilyas Chouaref rescues a point for Sion
It needed Ilyas Chouaref to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Young Boys, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Josias Lukembila runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Sion and Philipp Pomer
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A day to forget for Ali Kabacalman
Marked 4.49, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Fabio Daprelà in it
- Market Sion shop where it costs nothing