Erick Chávez

Central Defender - Agia Napa
17 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Erick Chávez

8 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Jefferson Sánchez

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Tempers go at Agia Napa

Marios Peratikos 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.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. René Flores is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

No hiding place for Lefteris Alabritis

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

Match

Osman Koroma the difference as Agia Napa beat Omonoia

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

Player ratings

Marios Peratikos shuts the door

Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Osman Koroma

7.92, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Agia Napa had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Edi Semedo

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Erick Chávez

Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Dimitris Litainas shuts the door

Defensive actions: 28, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Market

Ilias Melkas 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 Agia Napa can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Agia Napa

Jefferson Sánchez 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.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Agia Napa

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Konstantinos Petrou 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.

Market

One of our own: Kyriakos Christofi joins the Agia Napa first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kyriakos Christofi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Pieros Elia joins the Agia Napa first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pieros Elia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Nicholas Makris joins the Agia Napa first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nicholas Makris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Erick Chávez gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

4 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Toni Alexander Melas asks to leave Agia Napa

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Jefferson Sánchez 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Modestos Sotiriou is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

3 Edition

The Agia Napa Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Marios Peratikos 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jefferson Sánchez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

5 new faces, and Agia Napa are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Market

No place for Modestos Sotiriou in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Modestos Sotiriou has his answer from Agia Napa; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market

Agia Napa bring in an old head

Erick Chávez is 38 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.

Market

Experience through the door at Agia Napa

René Flores arrives at 36 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief