Šimon Vlna

Defensive Midfielder - Banik Ostrava U20
11 Nov 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Šimon Vlna

42 Edition

The Banik Ostrava Herald

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Šimon Vlna

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Banik Ostrava lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

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Tempers go at Banik Ostrava

Filip Kubala 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.

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Karel Pojezný 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.

In brief

Back issues
41 Edition

The Banik Ostrava Herald

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Šimon Vlna

26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Banik Ostrava lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

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Rafael Galhardo says Banik Ostrava 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.

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Filip Kubala 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 Banik Ostrava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

40 Edition

The Banik Ostrava Herald

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

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Šimon Vlna damages knee ligaments — 34 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 34 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

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Václav Jurečka in trouble away from the ground

Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.

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Michal Kohút 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 Banik Ostrava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

39 Edition

The Banik Ostrava Herald

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Šimon Vlna

44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Banik Ostrava lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

David Planka says Banik Ostrava 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

Tempers go at Banik Ostrava

Michal Kohút 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.

In brief

38 Edition

The Banik Ostrava Herald

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Šimon Vlna damages knee ligaments — 51 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 51 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Jhoyler Andrades hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Banik Ostrava can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Banik Ostrava

Michal Kohút 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.

In brief