Bola (tabloid)

Bola

Logo from 2009 to 2018
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner	Kompas Gramedia
Founder(s)	Ignatius Sunito Sumohadi Marsis
Editor	Agung Adiprasetyo
Founded	3 March 1984
Ceased publication	26 October 2018 (print)
Language	Indonesian
Headquarters	Jl. Palmerah Barat 35-37 Jakarta
Country	Indonesia
Circulation	25,000 (2017)
ISSN	0852-6729
Website	www.bolasport.com
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Bola (meaning Ball in Indonesian) is an Indonesian online sports newspaper, published in Jakarta by Kompas Gramedia. It was founded in 1984 as a pull-out section inside Kompas daily, and was then published separately. In 1997, it moved to twice editions a week (Tuesday and Friday), and since 2010 it was published three editions a week. Issues usually had 48 pages (Monday and Thursday) and 32 pages (Saturday).

Starting 7 June 2013, Bola also published its daily version, called Harian Bola (Bola Daily). The daily was short-lived, ceased publication on 31 October 2015 and moved back to twice editions per week.

On 26 October 2018, the tabloid published its last issue. Before its final issue, Kompas Gramedia published another daily sports newspaper Super Ball (under Tribun Network newspaper chain), which was first published in 2014 and is still in publication.

Tabloid

The last version of Bola covered a number of sporting competitions and events, including:

• The Indonesian Super League
• Various European Leagues and competitions, including Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Eredivisie
• Various international football leagues
• Formula One racing
• Grand Prix motorcycle racing
• Boxing
• Basketball
• Tennis
• Badminton
• The Olympic Games
• Various other sporting events, depending on on-going competitions

Key People

• Amien Rais
• Rano Karno
• Abdurrahman Wahid

Covers

List Of Football Players Appeared on Tabloid Bola

• Lionel Messi (22 March 2005, 25 November 2005, 5 December 2008, 24 January 2013, 29 April 2013, 26 September 2013, 8 January 2015, 9 July 2015, 7 January 2016, 7 March 2017, 21 March 2017)
• Gabriel Batistuta (20 November 1998, 4 May 1999, 30 May 2000, 19 January 2001, 9 February 2001, 27 April 2001, 25 May 2001, 8 February 2002, 31 January 2003)
• Alessandro Del Piero (March 1997, 2 June 1998, 24 August 1999, 5 November 1999, 25 February 2000, 12 May 2000, 31 October 2000, 23 February 2001, 28 September 2001, 16 November 2001, 25 January 2002, 13 September 2002, 26 October 2004, 11 February 2005, 14 September 2007, 23 September 2008, 3 February 2009)
• Pavel Nedvěd (7 April 2000, 5 February 2002, 8 November 2002, 18 April 2003, 31 October 2003, 19 October 2004, 17 December 2004, 1 November 2005)
• Cristiano Ronaldo (24 February 2006, 26 September 2006, 20 October 2006, 29 December 2006, 14 August 2007, 13 November 2007, 18 January 2008, 6 June 2008, 16 December 2008, 3 March 2009, 23 September 2010, 18 October 2010, 27 June 2013, 5 February 2015, 31 July 2018, 17 August 2018, 31 August 2018)
• Alessandro Nesta (7 December 1999, 15 February 2002)
• David Trezeguet (8 December 2000, 22 February 2002, 4 April 2003, 30 January 2004, 17 January 2006)
• Roberto Baggio (26 January 1999, 4 February 2000, 3 November 2000)
• Gianluigi Buffon (7 September 1999, 29 October 1999, 17 January 2003, 9 May 2003, 12 March 2004, 10 March 2016, 4 June 2016, 3 April 2018)
• Hernán Crespo (November 1997, 5 March 1999, 13 April 1999, 14 July 2000, 15 August 2000, 16 March 2001, 23 November 2001, 7 November 2003, 30 July 2004, 11 January 2005, 25 February 2005)
• Christian Vieri (26 June 1998, 27 August 1999, 7 December 2001, 8 March 2002, 11 June 2002, 10 January 2003, 11 April 2003, 25 January 2005)
• Andriy Shevchenko (8 October 1999, 26 October 1999, 30 April 2004, 27 August 2004, 6 December 2005)
• Paolo Maldini (13 March 2001, 3 August 2001, 22 November 2002)
• David Beckham (March 1997, 13 November 1998, 6 August 1999, 31 December 1999, 18 January 2002, 16 April 2004, 8 January 2010)
• Thierry Henry (14 April 2000, 21 August 2001, 15 April 2003, 26 March 2004, 23 April 2004, 10 December 2004, 10 November 2006)
• Francesco Totti (10 September 1999, 19 November 1999, 10 October 2000, 2 March 2001, 8 June 2001, 4 December 2001, 12 April 2002, 7 March 2003, 25 April 2003, 5 March 2004, 28 September 2007)
• Filippo Inzaghi (November 1997, 8 May 1998, 6 November 1998, 16 February 2001, 21 September 2001, 5 November 2002, 21 March 2003, 3 October 2003, 14 October 2005)
• Ronaldinho (25 July 2003, 12 September 2003, 19 November 2004, 22 February 2005, 25 April 2006, 5 December 2006, 20 February 2007, 11 July 2008)
• Dennis Bergkamp (18 December 1998, 10 August 1999, 26 October 1999, 5 April 2002)
• Marc Overmars (29 January 1999, 26 September 2000)
• Zinedine Zidane (May 1997, September 1997, 3 July 1998, 31 March 2000, 4 May 2001, 25 June 2004)
• Sebastiano Rossi (March 1995)
• Gianluca Pagliuca (October 1996)
• Thomas Helveg (16 October 1998)
• Andrés Guglielminpietro (16 April 1999)
• Pacho Rubio (11 July 2000)
• Paul Merson (16 January 2001)
• Enrico Chiesa (26 January 2001)
• Marco Di Vaio (2 February 2001)
• Fabien Barthez (27 February 2001)
• Sylvain Wiltord (6 March 2001)
• Steve McManaman (20 March 2001)
• Michael Owen (10 April 2001)
• Patrick Kluivert (24 April 2001)
• Hidetoshi Nakata (11 May 2001)
• Vincent Candela (18 May 2001)
• Stefan Effenberg (17 April 2001, 22 May 2001, 24 July 2001)
• Oliver Kahn (20 November 2001, 1 October 2002, 18 October 2005)
• Robert Pires (25 December 2001)
• Nicolas Anelka (28 December 2001)
• Owen Hargreaves (10 September 2002)
• Rubén Baraja (11 October 2002)
• Ole Gunnar Solskjær (22 September 2000, 20 August 2002)
• Gennaro Gattuso (23 January 2001, 24 January 2003)
• Javier Zanetti (5 October 1999, 26 April 2002, 21 February 2003, 13 April 2004)
• Stefano Fiore (2 May 2003)
• Luis Figo (21 July 2000, 28 July 2000, 13 February 2001)
• Nicola Ventola (1 March 2002)
• Joe Cole (23 August 2002, 22 March 2005, 19 April 2005)
• Fabio Cannavaro (18 October 2002)
• Andrea Pirlo (22 October 2002)
• Diego Forlán (1 November 2002)
• Jaap Stam (13 December 2002, 4 June 2004)
• Rui Costa (12 January 2001, 27 September 2002)
• Ronaldo (3 December 2002, 1 June 2004)
• Juan Pablo Ángel (2 January 2004)
• Andy van der Meyde (30 March 2004)
• Santiago Cañizares (18 May 2004)
• Fernando Morientes (20 April 2004, 8 June 2004, 14 January 2005)
• Deco (29 June 2004)
• Javier Saviola (19 March 2004, 9 July 2004)
• Michael Ballack (22 June 2004, 7 September 2004, 5 April 2005, 14 June 2005)
• Craig Bellamy (28 December 2004)
• Ryan Giggs (20 February 2001, 4 January 2005)
• Boaz Solossa (7 January 2005)
• Tim Howard (23 July 2004, 28 January 2005)
• Steven Gerrard (8 July 2005, 28 July 2006)
• Rio Ferdinand (3 September 2002, 23 December 2003)
• Raúl (1 May 2001, 6 September 2002)
• Juan Sebastian Verón (25 September 2001, 20 September 2002)
• Luciano Zauri (5 November 2003)
• Luis García (15 April 2005)
• Paul Robinson (2 September 2005)
• Ruud van Nistelrooy (18 June 2004, 9 September 2005)
• Mateja Kežman (27 July 2004)
• Pauleta (29 March 2005)
• Kaká (22 March 2004, 28 October 2005, 31 October 2008)
• Mark Viduka (23 May 2006)
• John Terry (2 June 2011)
• Theo Walcott (20 August 2011)

Logos

From March 1984, there are two different logos for this tabloid. The first logo was in use from 1984 to 2009, the second and last logo was in use from 2009 to 2018.

Bolasport.com and Superball.ID

Bola brand currently only exists in its online portal Bolasport.com. The Super Ball online portal, which was originally a subdomain of Tribunnews.com, is currently a subdomain of Bola portal with the name Superball.ID.

References

External links

• Official website (in Indonesian)