Brian Babit

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Hellas Syros
14 Nov 2026
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Marked for Brian Babit

12 Edition

The Hellas Syros Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Oct 2026

The knee: Kostas Provydakis out for 71 days

71 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hellas Syros lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match19 Oct 2026

Hellas Syros sink to position 9

3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match17 Oct 2026

7 matches without a win for Hellas Syros

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Hellas Syros are no longer polite ones.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Dimitris Skafidas keeps Hellas Syros in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Marios Ogkmpoe 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 Hellas Syros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Brian Babit is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 33 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Match17 Oct 2026

Marios Ogkmpoe rescues a point for Hellas Syros

It needed Marios Ogkmpoe to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Chania, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Thodoris Vernardos runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Half-satisfied: Angelos Tachtsidis on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Hellas Syros Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Sep 2026

Kostas Provydakis damages knee ligaments — 100 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 100 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Age has not caught Luciano Narsingh yet — 8.12

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.12 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Luciano Narsingh 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 Hellas Syros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tiago Baptista 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

Luciano Narsingh rescues a point for Hellas Syros

It needed Luciano Narsingh to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Panargiakos, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Michalis Stamatoullas

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

The dugout21 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Angelos Tachtsidis chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Thodoris Vernardos

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Luciano Narsingh is off the mark for Hellas Syros

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

3 Edition

The Hellas Syros Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Giannis Sourdis due for a Hellas Syros medical

Everything agreed with Levadiakos, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Fábio Duarte turns down Hellas Syros

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Hellas Syros

Luciano Narsingh 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Hellas Syros

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thodoris Vernardos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

PAOK tell Hellas Syros: Antonis Stergiakis is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad17 Aug 2026

No place for Brian Babit in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Hellas Syros are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market17 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Hellas Syros and Tiago Baptista

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tiago Baptista remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Hellas Syros would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

Market17 Aug 2026

Dimitris Skafidas arrives on loan

Hellas Syros have taken Dimitris Skafidas on loan from Panionios — cover where cover was needed.

In brief