Bor Ceferin

Defensive Midfielder - Jesenice
6 Mar 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Bor Ceferin

31 Edition

The Olimpija Ljubljana Gazette

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Matevž Vidovšek stands alone

15 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Fredéric Ananou

114 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Olimpija Ljubljana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Porto take Olimpija Ljubljana apart in Europe

0‑5. There is a level at which football is played every single week by clubs that have been doing it for fifty years, and an evening like this is what it feels like to arrive there without having done it.

The dugout

Veljko Jelenković keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Olimpija Ljubljana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

No end in sight to Olimpija Ljubljana's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Olimpija Ljubljana has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Agustín Doffo wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Olimpija Ljubljana can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

A falling-out at Olimpija Ljubljana

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

The dugout

Matevž Vidovšek 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.

The dugout

Dino Kojić left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Dino Kojić will call it something else in private.

In brief

Back issues
27 Edition

The Olimpija Ljubljana Gazette

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Olimpija Ljubljana turn down Primorje for Marko Brest

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

Boardroom

Window shuts: 1 in, 3 out at Olimpija Ljubljana

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 1 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

Juan Otero turns down Olimpija Ljubljana

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

Squad

Tempers go at Olimpija Ljubljana

Marvin Çuni 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

Door shut on Andraž Šporar

Olimpija Ljubljana asked and Slovan Bratislava said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

No hiding place for Veljko Jelenković

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

Loan watch

Bor Ceferin counts the days

“I watch every Olimpija Ljubljana game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Jesenice runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Vladislav Torop is in the works

Olimpija Ljubljana have made the call to CSKA Moscow. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

When it matters, Indrit Tuci plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

22 Edition

The Olimpija Ljubljana Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Marko Ristić says Olimpija Ljubljana 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

Words exchanged at Olimpija Ljubljana

Marko Brest 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

Žiga Pečjak is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Words at Olimpija Ljubljana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dino Kojić 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.

Loan watch

Bor Ceferin wants to come home

“I did not go to Jesenice to sit and watch. I want to come back to Olimpija Ljubljana and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 16 matches say the rest.

The dugout

Marvin Çuni gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Marvin Çuni is on it.

The dugout

Dino Kojić knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Olimpija Ljubljana, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Pedro Lucas

“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.

Market

Jošt Urbančič linked with a move away

The name of Jošt Urbančič keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Olimpija Ljubljana say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

6 Edition

The Jesenice Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Jesenice close the window on a squad of their own making

32 in and 23 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

Rene Kogoi 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 Jesenice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Jesenice training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matija Burin 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.

Transfer targets

Jesenice rebuffed over Florijan Mežnar

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Radomlje have kept their man, and Jesenice go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Miha Špernjak 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

Borna Panić named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Borna Panić is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad

This league is too small for Miha Sitar

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Jesenice will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Market

Still no ink between Jesenice and Miha Sitar

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Jesenice, another week without a signature from Miha Sitar.

Looking ahead

Kristian Dakič faces his old club

Triglav Kranj next, and one man in the Jesenice dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief