Matej Tadič

Striker - Koper
13 Oct 2026
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Marked for Matej Tadič

8 Edition

The Koper Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Matej Tadič, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.92

A mark of 7.92 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Abdoulaye Dabo 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 Koper this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Brian Oddei

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match19 Sep 2026

6 unbeaten for Koper

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Koper did not have in the autumn.

The terraces21 Sep 2026

Koper supporters have found a favourite in Matej Tadič

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Matej Tadič has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad21 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Joaquín Zappacosta

“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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Koper training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yannick Reuten 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Strahinja Jovanović 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

Koper share the spoils with NK Krka

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

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Koper Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Matej Tadič, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.73

A mark of 7.73 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at Koper training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdoulaye Dabo 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Strahinja Jovanović

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Strahinja Jovanović, and the manager let it.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Isaac Matondo at his very best

Marked 8.20. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Koper.

Match12 Sep 2026

Koper hit back inside 2 minutes

NK Zavrc held the lead for 2 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Koper answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.

Match12 Sep 2026

Koper share the spoils with NK Zavrc

A 2‑2 draw with NK Zavrc leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

6 Edition

The Koper Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Bassirou Ndiaye 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 Koper, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Abdoulaye Dabo 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Abdoulaye Dabo's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad7 Sep 2026

6 new faces, and Koper are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Strahinja Jovanović 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.

Match5 Sep 2026

Koper and ND Gorica take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Isaac Matondo

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

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Abdoulaye Dabo never got going

4.58 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

The chances came and went for Brian Oddei

4 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

In brief