Rodolfo

Striker - Cibalia
6 Apr 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Rodolfo

35 Edition

The Cibalia Chronicle

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Cibalia

Raúl Chalabe 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

Cleitinho 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.

Market

The Toni Kolega story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Toni Kolega signs something — a contract at Cibalia or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

Back issues
34 Edition

The Cibalia Chronicle

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Cibalia up to position 2

29 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Rodolfo: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cibalia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Cibalia

Renato Kelić 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.

In brief

30 Edition

The Cibalia Chronicle

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Cibalia up to position 2

29 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Marko Galić signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marko Galić commits to Cibalia for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Cibalia

Renato Kelić 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 136% of everything Cibalia earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Rodolfo

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Cibalia put Sebastian Musiolik up for sale

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

In brief

24 Edition

The Cibalia Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Cibalia out of the cup

Hajduk Split ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad

Marko Galić is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Marko Galić: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Market

Cibalia say no — this time

The offer from Imotski for Marin Grujević was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Cibalia

Renato Kelić 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 Toni Kolega

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Ante Kuliš in the eights

A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Cleitinho 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

Marko Galić shuts the door again

10 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.

Player ratings

Rodolfo misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

In brief

16 Edition

The Cibalia Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Marko Galić

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 25 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Match

4 matches without a win for Cibalia

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Cibalia are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Cibalia

Renato Kelić 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 Toni Kolega

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

A bad afternoon for Cibalia against Zadar

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

Squad

Karlo Stapić 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

The team sheet said everything about Sebastian Musiolik

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Sebastian Musiolik.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Branko Vrgoč

A mark of 4.48 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief