Jonas Löcker

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141 Edition

The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match9 Apr 2029

The season ends: position 2 for Gornik Zabrze

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 59 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Squad9 Apr 2029

Anton Zhylkin stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad9 Apr 2029

Kacper Urbański 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 Gornik Zabrze this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad9 Apr 2029

Words at Gornik Zabrze training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel Recio 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 ratings9 Apr 2029

Nothing got past Ondřej Zmrzlý

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings9 Apr 2029

Peter Federico runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout9 Apr 2029

The team sheet said everything about Malthe Højholt

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 Malthe Højholt.

Squad9 Apr 2029

Jonas Löcker stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jonas Löcker and Gornik Zabrze agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout9 Apr 2029

When it matters, Erik Prekop plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

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106 Edition

The Sturm Graz II Sentinel

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match5 Aug 2028

Sturm Graz II turn it around against Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz

Going 2 down does something to a side, and what it usually does is finish them. Not here. Sturm Graz II rebuilt the afternoon goal by goal, and Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz had no answer to any of it.

Player ratings7 Aug 2028

Both of them Belmin Beganović's — 8.67

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.67, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market7 Aug 2028

Jonas Löcker puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sturm Graz II, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market7 Aug 2028

Eyes on Kristjan Bendra again

The phone has started ringing about Kristjan Bendra again, and this time the name on the line is Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz. Sturm Graz II are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Belmin Beganović 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 Sturm Graz II this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match5 Aug 2028

Sturm Graz II find a way past Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz

Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz made Sturm Graz II work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match5 Aug 2028

Whatever happens, Sturm Graz II do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Words at Sturm Graz II training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jürgen Heil 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.

The terraces7 Aug 2028

One of their own: Belmin Beganović

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.

In brief

101 Edition

The Sturm Graz II Sentinel

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Jul 2028

Jonas Löcker puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sturm Graz II, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Tempers go at Sturm Graz II

Belmin Beganović 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.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Luis Balbo Vieira 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.

The dugout3 Jul 2028

The manager makes an example of Kristjan Bendra

“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.

The dugout3 Jul 2028

Belmin Beganović asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Sturm Graz II have started building around Julius Beck

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

Market3 Jul 2028

The Christoph Wiener-Pucher question follows Sturm Graz II around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Christoph Wiener-Pucher’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Kristjan Bendra: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Sturm Graz II will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

The dugout3 Jul 2028

The manager makes Senad Mustafić a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Sturm Graz II. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

97 Edition

The Sturm Graz II Sentinel

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market5 Jun 2028

Sturm Graz II say no — this time

The offer from First Vienna for Daniel Sumbu 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.

Market5 Jun 2028

Jonas Löcker asks to leave Sturm Graz II

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Richmond Osayantin stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Richmond Osayantin and Sturm Graz II agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Luis Balbo Vieira 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.

Squad5 Jun 2028

A falling-out at Sturm Graz II

Tizian-Valentino Scharmer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad5 Jun 2028

“I want to play”: Belmin Beganović speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

In brief