Lance Rozeboom

Central Defender - Valletta
6 Nov 2026
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Marked for Lance Rozeboom

11 Edition

The Valletta Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Valletta

Allef 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Liam Frendo at Valletta

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

Squad12 Oct 2026

Lance Rozeboom signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lance Rozeboom and Valletta agree another 2 years.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Julani Archibald

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

Manuel Morello goes back to face Birkirkara

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Manuel Morello’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Valletta needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Squad12 Oct 2026

This league is too small for Lance Rozeboom

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Valletta will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Valletta Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Oct 2026

Home is on Alex Tanque's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Valletta are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Valletta

Allef 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Jurgen Pisani signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jurgen Pisani commits to Valletta for another 1 years.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Bruno Gomes 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.

Match3 Oct 2026

Valletta see off Tarxien Rainbows

Three points for Valletta, 2‑1 the final word against Tarxien Rainbows in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Wages swallow 159% of the Valletta income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Jurgen Pisani

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Bruno Gomes was the difference for Valletta

Marked 7.85. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

A satisfied Jake Xerri

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Jake Xerri could afford to be generous.

In brief