Marked for Šimon Faško
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market8 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Zarija Lambulić
“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.
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Steady
Market25 Jan 2027
Viborg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Podbrezova did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Matúš Marcin 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Zarija Lambulić 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.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
The goals keep arriving from Radek Šiler’s exile
5 goals in 16 games at Al-Nassr — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Podbrezova updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Podbrezova can pretend not to have heard.
Match4 Jan 2027
43 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Podbrezova will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A month that belonged to Šimon Faško
The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at Podbrezova who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andriy Havrylenko, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Match12 Dec 2026
A chastening European night for Podbrezova
0‑3 against KAA Gent. The honest reading is not that the players were poor; it is that the distance between this club and that one is currently measured in things money takes years to buy.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 10 of the 26 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.31 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Dec 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Matúš Marcin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Podbrezova.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Luka Silagadze
“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 ratings14 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Matúš Marcin at his very best
Marked 8.47. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Podbrezova.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The team sheet said everything about Samuel Štefánik
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 Samuel Štefánik.
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Steady
Match24 Oct 2026
A European lesson for Podbrezova
1‑2 against West Ham United. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 26 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Samuel Štefánik 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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 ratings26 Oct 2026
19 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Podbrezova pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.