Moritz Berg

Defensive Midfielder - Kapfenberg
7 Mar 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Moritz Berg

30 Edition

The Kapfenberg Herald

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Richard Strebinger

There were 13 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Mario Zocher out for 25 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kapfenberg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Max Grüger, 21, steals the show — 7.60

Marked 7.60 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

The dugout

Moritz Berg says Kapfenberg went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kapfenberg

Richard Strebinger 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

Words at Kapfenberg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marlon Morgenstern 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.

Player ratings

Nathan Butler-Oyedeji runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Marlon Faß rescues a point for Kapfenberg

It needed Marlon Faß to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Austria Klagenfurt, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

No place for Tjorben Uphoff on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Kapfenberg pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

In brief

Back issues
21 Edition

The Kapfenberg Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Thomas Maier out for 60 days

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

Squad

A fracture rules Mario Zocher out for 94 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kapfenberg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Richard Strebinger keeps Kapfenberg 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Kapfenberg

José Cañas 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.

Match

Kapfenberg come up short against Rapid Wien II

Rapid Wien II left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Markus Prass answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Marc Helleparth 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.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Albin Berisha

6 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

The dugout

The plan did not have a place for José Cañas

Nobody at Kapfenberg is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief

16 Edition

The Kapfenberg Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Thomas Maier out for 97 days

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

Squad

A falling-out at Kapfenberg

Albin Berisha and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Bleron Krasniqi

“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.

Squad

Words at Kapfenberg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adrian Marinović 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

Kapfenberg are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Thomas Maier knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Thomas Maier trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

9 Edition

The Kapfenberg Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Yalın Dilek is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Albin Berisha 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 Kapfenberg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

One of their own: Nathan Butler-Oyedeji

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Kapfenberg find a way past Austria Lustenau

Austria Lustenau made Kapfenberg work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Meletios Mišković

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

Nick Scharkowski 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.

Player ratings

Nathan Butler-Oyedeji runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

A satisfied Markus Prass

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Markus Prass could afford to be generous.

Squad

Meletios Mišković named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Meletios Mišković has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

In brief