Matej Obšivan

Central Defender - Púchov
6 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Matej Obšivan

13 Edition

The Púchov Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Martin Hlavatý says Púchov 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 Púchov

Róbert Mazáň 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Samuel Bossiwa

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Púchov come up short against MSK Zilina B

MSK Zilina B left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Viktor Rusnak left the room before anybody could ask which.

Player ratings

Wrong net for Eliáš Piták

A touch he did not mean and a goal that goes in the book with his name against it. Púchov will not blame him tonight and he will not need them to.

The dugout

Lukáš Gašparovič does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

Player ratings

František Kóša keeps on missing

Shots: 10, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Market

The Samuel Gladiš story refuses to die

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

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Púchov Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Matej Obšivan keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Púchov may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Róbert Mazáň 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 Púchov this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Púchov training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Lesniak 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 dugout

No hiding place for Adrián Knurovský

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrián Knurovský, and the manager let it.

Squad

24 new faces, and Púchov are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Púchov

Something was said to František Kóša and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

5 Edition

The Púchov Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Adrián Knurovský keeps Púchov 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

Words exchanged at Púchov

Róbert Mazáň 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

Zdeněk Říha signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Zdeněk Říha commits to Púchov for another 3 years.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Púchov

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

A row about effort at Púchov

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Lesniak was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Samuel Gladiš runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Adrián Knurovský

“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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Róbert Mazáň

A mark of 7.41, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Viktor Rusnak was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Púchov dressing room was either.

In brief