Park Tae-Rang

Central Defender - Al-Faisaly
17 Jul 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Park Tae-Rang

85 Edition

The Al-Faisaly Courier

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Abdoulaye Seck breaks a bone — 80 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 80 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Al-Faisaly

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Al-Faisaly is running low.

Squad

Raphael Silva 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 Al-Faisaly this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

Back issues
76 Edition

The Al-Faisaly Courier

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Franco Balmaceda 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 The request is on a desk at Al-Faisaly, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Al-Faisaly

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Park Tae-Rang gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Park Tae-Rang has just signed for Al-Faisaly, and for once the answer mattered.

Match

Al-Faisaly make home a hard place to visit

11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match

The wait goes on for Al-Faisaly

4 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

Tempers go at Al-Faisaly

Morato 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.

Squad

Words at Al-Faisaly training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ashkan Alijani 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.

Player ratings

Ibrahima N'Diaye runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Romell Quioto 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.

In brief

19 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Tornike Dzotsenidze out for 75 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason MFK Michalovce will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

9 unbeaten for MFK Michalovce

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation MFK Michalovce did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Park Tae-Rang says MFK Michalovce 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 MFK Michalovce

Abdul Musa 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.

Squad

Juan Villamayor 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kido Taylor-Hart

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

7 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nothing got past Polydefkis Volanakis

25 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad

Tempers go at MFK Michalovce

Abdul Musa 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.

Match

MFK Michalovce get the job done against FK Senica

A 2‑0 win over FK Senica, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Matúš Begala

20 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Abdul Musa

Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Samuel

A mark of 7.65, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Juan Esteban Larrahondo 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.

Squad

Samuel finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. MFK Michalovce have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Squad

The plan did not have a place for Adam Jakubech

Nobody at MFK Michalovce is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief

4 Edition

The MFK Michalovce Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The cup run ends for MFK Michalovce

0‑0 against Podbrezova, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Patrik Lukáč is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Patrik Lukáč: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Market

Park Tae-Rang 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 MFK Michalovce can pretend not to have heard.

Market

MFK Michalovce turn down Spartak Myjava for Patrik Danek

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

Match

No end in sight to MFK Michalovce's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at MFK Michalovce has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

MFK Michalovce 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.

Player ratings

Nikita Mihhailov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Abdul Musa 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 Michalovce this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Abdul Musa

“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