Emil Bergström

Central Defender - Anorthosis
17 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

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10 Edition

The Anorthosis Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Anorthosis

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

The goals have deserted Anorthosis

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Anorthosis can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Tempers go at Anorthosis

Clifford Aboagye 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alessio da Cruz

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Jacob Karlstrøm 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.

Match

AEL take the points off Anorthosis

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Boardroom

133% of the income goes out in wages at Anorthosis

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Christos Sielis 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.

Squad

8 new faces, and Anorthosis 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.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Anorthosis Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andreas Karamanolis

27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Anorthosis lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Tempers go at Anorthosis

Clifford Aboagye 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 Anorthosis training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kostakis Artymatas 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

Emil Bergström 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 Anorthosis against Aris

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

Market

Anorthosis put Babacar Dione up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Babacar Dione may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

2 Edition

The Anorthosis Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Anorthosis turn down Ethnikos Achnas for Tamás Kiss

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Kostakis Artymatas stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Kostakis Artymatas and Anorthosis agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Clifford Aboagye 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 Anorthosis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Kostakis Artymatas 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

Andreas Karamanolis told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Andreas Karamanolis has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Anorthosis.

Market

Doxa are about to pick up the phone

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

In brief