Šimon Faško

Defensive Midfielder - Podbrezova
2 Dec 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Šimon Faško

16 Edition

The Podbrezova Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Podbrezova sink to position 11

11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

Matúš Rusnák 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 Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Filip Mielke 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.

Squad

Davit Hakobyan wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Podbrezova can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout

Filip Mielke 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 dugout

Ivan Budachev is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Market

The Radek Šiler story refuses to die

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

The dugout

When it matters, Šimon Faško 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.

The dugout

A door opens for René Paraj

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Podbrezova Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Real improvement from Jakub Pira at Podbrezova

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jakub Pira is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A row about effort at Podbrezova

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

Squad

Martin Trnovský out for 17 days

The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Martin Trnovský, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Loan watch

Matej Jurička has seen enough of BATE

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Podbrezova, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Looking ahead

Martin Chrien faces his old club

MFK Ruzomberok next, and one man in the Podbrezova dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

The dugout

When it matters, Šimon Faško 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.

Squad

Jakub Pira walks taller at Podbrezova

His past walked in ahead of him. Players who have been where he has been get a hearing in a dressing room before they have earned one, and he has it for as long as his form does.

Market

Peter Kováčik linked with a move away

The name of Peter Kováčik keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Podbrezova say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

A door opens for René Paraj

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief