Florian Pruhs

Goalkeeper - SV Elversberg
10 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Florian Pruhs

110 Edition

The SV Elversberg Gazette

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for SV Elversberg

13 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

93 days out for Jasper Cillessen after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. SV Elversberg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Matthias Zimmermann puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at SV Elversberg, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Florian Pruhs keeps SV Elversberg 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.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 25 in, 10 out at SV Elversberg

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 25 arrived, 10 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Match

SV Elversberg cannot find the net

5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

Santiago Kojro arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Santiago Kojro has, at SV Elversberg, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

Jonathan Dubasin due for a SV Elversberg medical

Everything agreed with Borussia Dortmund, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Player ratings

Lukas Petkov was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

Back issues
68 Edition

The SV Elversberg Gazette

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Arthur Nasta says SV Elversberg 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

A falling-out at SV Elversberg

Nicolas Höfler and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Vitor 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.

Looking ahead

Florian Pruhs faces his old club

SC Paderborn next, and one man in the SV Elversberg dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Squad

Lukas Petkov remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at SV Elversberg would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

The dugout

Braian Vargas knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Braian Vargas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

64 Edition

The SV Elversberg Gazette

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Felix Keidel asks to leave SV Elversberg

“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.

Player ratings

Lukas Petkov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Luis Seifert: 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.” SV Elversberg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

SV Elversberg end the wait against Preußen Münster

It had gone 7 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Squad

Florian Pruhs gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Florian Pruhs has just signed for SV Elversberg, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

A falling-out at SV Elversberg

Nicolas Höfler and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Lars Lokotsch sends SV Elversberg past Preußen Münster

It finished 1‑0, and it was Lars Lokotsch’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to SV Elversberg.

Squad

Matthias Zimmermann 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.

Player ratings

Lars Lokotsch stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.71 on the card, and the SV Elversberg support went home talking about one name.

In brief