Neffer Díaz

Defensive Midfielder - MFK Michalovce
23 Aug 2028
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Neffer Díaz

105 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Patrik Lukáč says MFK Michalovce 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.

Match

MFK Michalovce make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now MFK Michalovce have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Tempers go at MFK Michalovce

Samuel 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

MFK Michalovce find a way past MFK Skalica

MFK Skalica made MFK Michalovce work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Shola Ogundana

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.64, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Samuel runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Tomasz Walczak in the eights

A performance of 8.23 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Neffer Díaz signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Neffer Díaz commits to MFK Michalovce for another 4 years.

Squad

José Ángel López 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.

In brief

Back issues
95 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

MFK Michalovce lose Ben Cottrell

142 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Tempers go at MFK Michalovce

Samuel 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

Neffer Díaz signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Neffer Díaz commits to MFK Michalovce for another 4 years.

In brief

93 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Lukáš Pauschek signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lukáš Pauschek and MFK Michalovce agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at MFK Michalovce

Franchu 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.

Market

The Samuel talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. MFK Michalovce know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

90 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Patrik Lukáč keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Franchu 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 MFK Michalovce this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of José Ángel López

“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.

In brief

81 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Patrik Lukáč: 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.” MFK Michalovce have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at MFK Michalovce

Franchu 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

Neffer Díaz 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.

In brief

73 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Neffer Díaz keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Samuel 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 MFK Michalovce this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Artur Gajdoš is carrying MFK Michalovce

7 goals and a season average of 7.57. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings

Artur Gajdoš in the eights

A performance of 9.54 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

MFK Michalovce see off AS Trencin

Three points for MFK Michalovce, 1‑0 the final word against AS Trencin in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ben Cottrell

Marked 8.29 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Muhammadbobur Karimov wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and MFK Michalovce know it.

Player ratings

Dimos Papakonstantinou shuts the door

Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

The one thing Tomasz Walczak could not do

Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief

61 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Matúš Begala: 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.” MFK Michalovce have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ben Cottrell

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at MFK Michalovce

Tornike Dzotsenidze 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

MFK Michalovce come up short against Podbrezova

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

Squad

Tomasz Walczak 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.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Adam Jakubech

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Market

Samuel linked with a move away

The name of Samuel keeps appearing in other people's back pages. MFK Michalovce say nothing, which says plenty.

Player ratings

Off the pace: José Ángel López

A mark of 5.56 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

Squad

Neffer Díaz 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.

In brief

56 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cup progress for MFK Michalovce

A 2‑0 win over Zlate Moravce, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Blendi Idrizi

Defensive actions: 33. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Market

Dimos Papakonstantinou hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what MFK Michalovce can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Polydefkis Volanakis

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 26 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Neffer Díaz

Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad

Tempers go at MFK Michalovce

Samuel 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 Artur Gajdoš

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

Match

Tomasz Walczak sends MFK Michalovce past MFK Ruzomberok

It finished 1‑0, and it was Tomasz Walczak’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to MFK Michalovce.

Squad

Home is on Muhammadbobur Karimov's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; MFK Michalovce are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

29 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Hugo Ahl asks to leave MFK Michalovce

“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.

Market

MFK Michalovce say no — this time

The offer from Breidablik for José Ángel López 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 MFK Michalovce

Blendi Idrizi 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

26 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tomasz Walczak: 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.” MFK Michalovce have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Robert Aldama 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 MFK Michalovce this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Neffer Díaz signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Neffer Díaz commits to MFK Michalovce for another 4 years.

In brief