The Rudes Chronicle
Match8 Aug 2026
Cruel end for Hrvatski Dragovoljac as Rudes pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Rudes scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Jurica Poldrugač runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vedran Celjak 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 Rudes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Thiago Salischiker Rucci
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Krešimir Kovačević
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Krešimir Kovačević, and the manager let it.
Match8 Aug 2026
Rudes find a way past Hrvatski Dragovoljac
Hrvatski Dragovoljac made Rudes work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market10 Aug 2026
Rudes and Karlo Kralj are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Krešimir Kovačević dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Market10 Aug 2026
No place for Dominik Čeko in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Dominik Čeko has his answer from Rudes; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Market 48 months and counting on Ivan Žutić
- Market Experience through the door at Rudes
- Squad A Rudes teenager takes the young player award