Erik Midtgarden

Central Defender - Doxa
5 Oct 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Erik Midtgarden

9 Edition

The Doxa Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The small margins put Doxa out

Out, 1‑2 to Pafos, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

Savvas Christodoulou, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.77

A mark of 7.77 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Valentino Pereira — 7.36

Marked 7.36. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

Squad

Tempers go at Doxa

Ernest Asante 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

Rúben Brígido 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.

The terraces

Doxa supporters have found a favourite in Valentino Pereira

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Valentino Pereira has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Doxa see off Omonoia

Three points for Doxa, 1‑0 the final word against Omonoia in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Erik Midtgarden

“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 ratings

Nobody could get near Agapios Vrikkis

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

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Doxa Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

4 matches without a win for Doxa

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Doxa are no longer polite ones.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Doxa

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Ernest Asante 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 Doxa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Andreas Paraskeva 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Doxa against AE Kition

0‑1 to AE Kition, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Doxa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erik Midtgarden 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

2 Edition

The Doxa Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Andreas Paraskeva is a Doxa player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Squad

Tempers go at Doxa

Ernest Asante 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

Theodoros Andronikou 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

No place for Carlos Peixoto in the plan

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

Market

Ermis are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Doxa will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market

Still no ink between Doxa and Ernest Asante

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Doxa, another week without a signature from Ernest Asante.

In brief