Simão Pedro

Left Midfielder - Zeleznicar Pancevo
22 Apr 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Simão Pedro

58 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Zoran Popović keeps Zeleznicar Pancevo in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

At 20, Davorin Tošić is already the best thing here

An average of 6.59 in a first team he is several years too young for. Zeleznicar Pancevo have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 15 in, 4 out at Zeleznicar Pancevo

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 15 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Match

The wait goes on for Zeleznicar Pancevo

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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Branislav Knežević

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Miloš Kosanović 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zoran Popović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Zeleznicar Pancevo come up short against Radnicki Nis

Radnicki Nis left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Simão Pedro attracts admirers

The name of Simão Pedro has come up in conversations Zeleznicar Pancevo were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief

Back issues
22 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Branislav Knežević 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 Zeleznicar Pancevo can pretend not to have heard.

Match

4 matches without a win for Zeleznicar Pancevo

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Zeleznicar Pancevo are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A row about effort at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miloš Kosanović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Nikola Jovanović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Mateja Premović 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.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on David Ankeye

11 goals and a season average of 7.24 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match

A bad afternoon for Zeleznicar Pancevo against OFK Beograd

0‑1 to OFK Beograd, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Branislav Knežević

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Marko Mitrovic: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

10 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Zeleznicar Pancevo

Beaten 1‑4 by TSC, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Branislav Knežević asks to leave Zeleznicar Pancevo

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Zoran Popović keeps Zeleznicar Pancevo in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Zoran Popović 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Nikola Jovanović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Osagie Onisodumeya 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Zeleznicar Pancevo dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑4 defeat, delivered by Marko Mitrovic to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Simão Pedro makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

8 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Zeleznicar Pancevo

Beaten 1‑4 by Spartak Subotica, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Player ratings

Janko Jevremović was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 30. 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.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Simão Pedro at 20 — 7.82

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Simão Pedro did not need any: 7.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

4 matches without a win for Zeleznicar Pancevo

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Zeleznicar Pancevo are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Zoran Popović 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.

Squad

Nikola Dimitrijević 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nikola Jovanović

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

Boardroom

Nobody left the Zeleznicar Pancevo dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑4 defeat, delivered by Marko Mitrovic to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

5 Edition

The Zeleznicar Pancevo Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Zoran Popović

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $370.0K sale of Marko Ćurić

He is going to Cukaricki, the club has $370.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

OFK Beograd come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Zeleznicar Pancevo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Moses Nyebe due for a Zeleznicar Pancevo medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Tempers go at Zeleznicar Pancevo

Zoran Popović 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.

Transfer targets

Zeleznicar Pancevo make their move for Ahmed Hadžimujović

$87.0K on the table at Novi Pazar. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Marko Ćurić moves on

Cukaricki pay $370.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Transfer targets

Haladas tell Zeleznicar Pancevo: Bence Gazdag is not for sale

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.

Match

Vojvodina take the points off Zeleznicar Pancevo

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief