Amel Šakanović

Defensive Midfielder - Bilje
16 Aug 2026
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The Bilje Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

No mercy from Bilje

Bistrica will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Bilje were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad

Luka Brkić gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Luka Brkić has just signed for Bilje, and for once the answer mattered.

Player ratings

David Vitamvas, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.14

A mark of 8.14 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Emir Velić delivers — 7.95

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Emir Velić scored, was marked 7.95, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Transfer targets

Alexander Stožinić turns down Bilje

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Primorje keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Stuart Moore 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 Bilje this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Bilje supporters have found a favourite in Mark Vuleta

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Mark Vuleta 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.

Market

Bilje promote Benjamin Bijol from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Benjamin Bijol has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Miha Mevlja joins the Bilje first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Miha Mevlja is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief