Denny Tiganj

Goalkeeper - Rudar Velenje
22 Oct 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Denny Tiganj

10 Edition

The Rudar Velenje Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Rudar Velenje

7 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.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Rudar Velenje — 7.44

1 for Ante Kozina, marked 7.44, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Denny Tiganj keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Petr Kudakovskiy 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

Rudar Velenje pick somebody else ahead of Lenos Sofroniou

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Match

Rudar Velenje share the spoils with NK Maribor

A 1‑1 draw with NK Maribor leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Rudar Velenje Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Gal Gorenak runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Rudar Velenje turn down NK Krsko for Elmir Avdić

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Words at Rudar Velenje training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petr Kudakovskiy is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Tempers go at Rudar Velenje

Sabur Ali 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

NK Zavrc expected to open talks for Rastko Rastoka

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Rudar Velenje will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market

Rudar Velenje and Lenos Sofroniou are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market

The clock runs on Denny Tiganj's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Squad

Lenos Sofroniou dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Sandro Zukić

A mark of 7.18, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief