Marked for Santiago Ormeño
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Andorra
Luiz Felipe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Edgar 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 ratings16 Nov 2026
A defender's afternoon for Luiz Felipe
Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Andorra will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A defender's afternoon for Edgar
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Sergio Molina
“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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A promise honoured for Ovie Ejaria
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Andorra told Ovie Ejaria something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
In brief
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The dugout
Pau López knocks on the manager's door
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Looking ahead
The leaders are next for Andorra
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Match
Andorra and Gijón cancel each other out
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Both of them Manu Nieto's — 8.63
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.63, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad19 Oct 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Andorra
Luiz Felipe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
Manu Nieto scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Mirandés, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Pau López
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 25 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Andorra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Ormeño 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The fee is $6.0M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Oviedo drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Andorra have done the hard part with Estudiantes, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Andorra
Aingeru Olabarrieta 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. River Plate have kept their man, and Andorra go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Pau López
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pau López, and the manager let it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Selton is 19, and Andorra have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
River Plate have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The formation has left Ovie Ejaria behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Andorra will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market17 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Pau López’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
Santiago Ormeño arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Santiago Ormeño has, at Andorra, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Thomas Carrique commits to Andorra for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aingeru Olabarrieta 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Andorra asked and Betis said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Andorra are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Rayo Vallecano have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Girona: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Pau López asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.