Bor Ceferin

Defensive Midfielder - NK Domzale
18 Sep 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Bor Ceferin

109 Edition

The NK Domzale Courier

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Nejc Bijol damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Jan Oblak out for 15 days

The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Jan Oblak, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

No hiding place for Benjamin Handanovic

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

Match

Koper take the points off NK Domzale

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

Squad

Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mario Palomino 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.

Player ratings

Tilen Letonja runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
107 Edition

The NK Domzale Courier

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nejc Bijol damages knee ligaments — 31 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 31 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Tomas Vipotnik yet — 8.47

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.47 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Gregor Brekalo is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at NK Domzale is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Real improvement from Šimun Šintić at NK Domzale

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Šimun Šintić is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Gregor Oblak 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 NK Domzale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

NK Domzale see off ND Gorica

Three points for NK Domzale, 1‑0 the final word against ND Gorica in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Words at NK Domzale training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mario Palomino 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.

Market

NK Domzale sign Bor Ceferin, one for the future

Bor Ceferin is 20, and NK Domzale have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Benjamin Handanovic

A mark of 4.46 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

107 Edition

The Olimpija Ljubljana Gazette

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

18 unbeaten for Olimpija Ljubljana

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 18 matches without defeat is a foundation Olimpija Ljubljana did not have in the autumn.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Denis Pintol

20 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Mateo Cardona out for 113 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Olimpija Ljubljana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Real improvement from Dino Kojić at Olimpija Ljubljana

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dino Kojić is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

Olimpija Ljubljana make home a hard place to visit

11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Tempers go at Olimpija Ljubljana

Marko Brest 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.

Market

Business is business: Bor Ceferin goes

NK Domzale paid $140.0K and Olimpija Ljubljana took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

The Žiga Pečjak conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Honved will make the call about Žiga Pečjak this week. Olimpija Ljubljana have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dino Kojić

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief