Marked for Aleksa Vasilić
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Yegor Prutsev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Oct 2026
OFK Beograd are still strangers to each other
11 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Ethan Hoard story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ethan Hoard signs something — a contract at OFK Beograd or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Aleksej Vukičević has written the date down.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Marko Alčevski knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marko Alčevski trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
Chastening afternoon for OFK Beograd
A 1‑5 beating by Partizan was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match12 Sep 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between OFK Beograd and Partizan, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at OFK Beograd training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edmund Addo 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Edmund Addo
“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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The clock did what Radnicki 1923 would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ebuka Okeke and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Dusan Petrovic after 1‑5, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A touch he did not mean and a goal that goes in the book with his name against it. OFK Beograd will not blame him tonight and he will not need them to.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Luka Zarić obliged against FAP Priboj. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is OFK Beograd.
Match22 Aug 2026
Radnicki 1923 will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. OFK Beograd were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 OFK Beograd, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.93 for the rest of it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Yegor Prutsev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Edmund Addo 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 23 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.