Ivan Lima

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Piast
13 Dec 2026
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Marked for Ivan Lima

15 Edition

The Piast Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad9 Nov 2026

27 days out for Kacper Cichy after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Piast will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Piast

Jorge Félix 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.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Ivan Lima signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ivan Lima and Piast agree another 5 years.

Match7 Nov 2026

A bad afternoon for Piast against Cracovia

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

Squad9 Nov 2026

Leandro Sanca 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.

Market9 Nov 2026

No place for Jakub Lewicki in the plan

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

The dugout9 Nov 2026

Tomasz Bednarek: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

Jason Lokilo 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.

Market9 Nov 2026

Talks stall between Piast and Mimito Biai

“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.

In brief

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14 Edition

The Piast Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad2 Nov 2026

A fracture rules Kacper Cichy out for 35 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Piast will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Loan watch2 Nov 2026

Domen Gril wants to come home

“I did not go to NK Osijek to sit and watch. I want to come back to Piast and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 7 matches say the rest.

Match31 Oct 2026

Piast come up short against Podbeskidzie

Podbeskidzie left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Emmanuel Twumasi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market2 Nov 2026

Still no ink between Piast and Jorge Meré

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

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Tomasz Bednarek: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Dominik Żak named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Dominik Żak is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad2 Nov 2026

The armband comes off Jakub Czerwiński

Piast will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Ivan Lima wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Piast will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

In brief

13 Edition

The Piast Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match24 Oct 2026

German Barkovskiy settles it late for Piast

The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and German Barkovskiy decided nobody was going anywhere. Lechia had no time left to answer.

Squad26 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Kacper Cichy out for 43 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Piast will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Piast

Igor Drapiński 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.

Match24 Oct 2026

Piast get the job done against Lechia

A 1‑0 win over Lechia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Leandro Sanca 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 ratings26 Oct 2026

Both jobs done by German Barkovskiy — 7.90

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 9 actions, 7.90, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad26 Oct 2026

7 new faces, and Piast 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.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Tomasz Bednarek kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Ivan Lima

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

In brief

11 Edition

The Piast Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

Kacper Cichy breaks a bone — 58 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Jakub Czerwiński 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.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Piast keep their word to Alan Matturro

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Piast

Szczepan Mucha and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Darío Hidalgo is a square peg at Piast

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Justin Daniel 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 dugout12 Oct 2026

Ivan Lima gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ivan Lima is on it.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

František Plach has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and František Plach has written the date down.

Market12 Oct 2026

Jason Lokilo linked with a move away

The name of Jason Lokilo keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Piast say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

4 Edition

The Piast Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match19 Aug 2026

Piast through in the cup

A 3‑1 win over Wisla Krakow, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Dominik Holec stands alone

9 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

German Barkovskiy scores twice — 8.62

Two goals and a mark of 8.62 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market24 Aug 2026

Igor Drapiński 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 Piast can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Ivan Lima runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. 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

Legia come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Piast did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Oskar Leśniak, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.02

A mark of 8.02 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Piast cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Market24 Aug 2026

Elton Fikaj moves on

Wisla Krakow pay $620.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

In brief