Luís Silva

Left Back - MFK Skalica
12 May 2027
Wednesday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 4 Transfers Relations Events 37 Awards Matches History

Marked for Luís Silva

36 Edition

The MFK Skalica Gazette

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Apr 2027

Richard Ludha 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 Skalica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Apr 2027

The decline has begun for Martin Nagy

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for MFK Skalica is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Roman Potočný 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.

The dugout5 Apr 2027

Philip Onyedika has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at MFK Skalica will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad5 Apr 2027

The armband comes off Oliver Podhorín

MFK Skalica will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

The dugout5 Apr 2027

No hiding place for Luís Silva

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

In brief

Back issues
35 Edition

The MFK Skalica Gazette

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market29 Mar 2027

Adam Morong is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at MFK Skalica is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Tempers go at MFK Skalica

Richard Ludha 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.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Branislav Niňaj 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.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Maurizio Macorig out for 49 days

The medical room confirms 49 days on the sidelines for Maurizio Macorig, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Adam Morong 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 dugout29 Mar 2027

Richard Ludha has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at MFK Skalica will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

33 Edition

The MFK Skalica Gazette

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad15 Mar 2027

A falling-out at MFK Skalica

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

Squad15 Mar 2027

A row about effort at MFK Skalica

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

The dugout15 Mar 2027

The manager makes an example of Philip Onyedika

“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.

Squad15 Mar 2027

Home is on Luís Silva'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 Skalica are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout15 Mar 2027

Petr Pudhorocký gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Petr Pudhorocký is on it.

Market15 Mar 2027

The Richard Ludha story refuses to die

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

Squad15 Mar 2027

Petr Pudhorocký 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 MFK Skalica would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

Loan watch15 Mar 2027

Peter Guinari first choice at Zlate Moravce

21 starts and a season average of 6.73. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.

The dugout15 Mar 2027

A door opens for Martin Černek

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

26 Edition

The MFK Skalica Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market25 Jan 2027

Martin Junas 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 MFK Skalica, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad25 Jan 2027

A falling-out at MFK Skalica

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

Squad25 Jan 2027

A row about effort at MFK Skalica

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

Transfer targets25 Jan 2027

MFK Skalica rebuffed over Róbert Polievka

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. DAC Dunajska Streda have kept their man, and MFK Skalica go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout25 Jan 2027

Philip Onyedika 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

Tiago Sampaio signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tiago Sampaio and MFK Skalica agree another 3 years.

Squad25 Jan 2027

MFK Skalica are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout25 Jan 2027

Mohammed Marzuq Yahaya gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mohammed Marzuq Yahaya is on it.

The dugout25 Jan 2027

A door opens for Damián Bariš

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