The Rudes Chronicle
Match5 Sep 2026
Rudes win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Sesvete will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Match7 Sep 2026
Rudes up to position 3
11 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market7 Sep 2026
Dominik Čeko 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 The request is on a desk at Rudes, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Cibalia deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Krešimir Kovačević reports back to Rudes with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Rudes
Vedran Celjak 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Rudes lose Diego Andrada
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Petar Andrić
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match5 Sep 2026
Rudes see off Sesvete
Three points for Rudes, 2‑0 the final word against Sesvete in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Ivan Težački
“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.
In brief
- Squad Words at Rudes training over how hard people work
- Player ratings Karlo Kamenar runs at them all day
- Player ratings Alan Martínez takes the honours