Ethnikos Achnas U18

Cypriot First Division U18
30 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process
4 Edition

The Ethnikos Achnas Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ethnikos Achnas turn down Apollon for Juan Cejas

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

Transfer targets

Nicolás Castagno will not be coming to Ethnikos Achnas

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Andorra is saying, and nobody at Ethnikos Achnas is enjoying the guessing.

Transfer targets

Eibar tell Ethnikos Achnas: Matías Contrera 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ethnikos Achnas

Martim Maia 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.

Squad

Nikolas Perdios out for 40 days

The medical room confirms 40 days on the sidelines for Nikolas Perdios, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Nicolás Castagno is in the works

Ethnikos Achnas have made the call to Andorra. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Labros Michail Konstanti is in the works

Ethnikos Achnas have made the call to AEZ Zakakiou. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Looking ahead

Marios Pechlivanis faces his old club

Olympiakos Nicosia next, and one man in the Ethnikos Achnas dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Squad

A season on the outside for Momčilo Mrkaić

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Ethnikos Achnas has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Ethnikos Achnas Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

AEL come back empty-handed

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

Transfer targets

Nicolás Castagno is a medical away from Ethnikos Achnas

The deal with Andorra is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Evagoras Charalabous

Ethnikos Achnas asked and Anorthosis said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Ethnikos Achnas try to borrow Matías Contrera

Eibar 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Ethnikos Achnas

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

Squad

The formation has left Christos Loukaidis behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Ethnikos Achnas will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

2 Edition

The Ethnikos Achnas Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Christos Loukaidis

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ethnikos Achnas have done the hard part with AE Kition, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Porto tell Ethnikos Achnas: Oskar Pietuszewski 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Ethnikos Achnas

Martim Maia 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.

Market

One of our own: Nektarios Elia joins the Ethnikos Achnas first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nektarios Elia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Ethnikos Achnas promote Petros Antoniou from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Petros Antoniou has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Fotis Kastanos joins the Ethnikos Achnas first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fotis Kastanos is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Kyriakos Ioannou joins the Ethnikos Achnas first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kyriakos Ioannou is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Aaron Dhondt is a square peg at Ethnikos Achnas

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.

Squad

6 new faces, and Ethnikos Achnas 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

1 Edition

The Ethnikos Achnas Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Nicolás Andereggen has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Ethnikos Achnas can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Emmanuel Lomotey signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emmanuel Lomotey and Ethnikos Achnas agree another 4 years.

Squad

Richard Ofori wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Ethnikos Achnas know it.

Transfer targets

Pafos tell Ethnikos Achnas: Thanasis Papadoudis 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.

Squad

A last season at home is what Richard Ofori is after

It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Martim Maia 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 Ethnikos Achnas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Achyronas-Onisilos watching Mihail Angelos Marinescu

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ethnikos Achnas have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

Still no ink between Ethnikos Achnas and Neneco

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

Transfer targets

A loan move for Charalabos Kyriakidis is in the works

Ethnikos Achnas have made the call to Pafos. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief