Marked for Marko Velevski
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Bojan Brać 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 OFK Vršac this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at OFK Vršac
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marko Stanojević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Marko Velevski
“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.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
A test against the best for OFK Vršac
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Borac Čačak.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for OFK Vršac
0‑4 against Trayal Kruševac, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match19 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for OFK Vršac
7 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at OFK Vršac training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marko Stanojević 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
Words exchanged at OFK Vršac
Ersi Bode 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.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the OFK Vršac 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
OFK Vršac are still strangers to each other
18 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑4 Lazar Milenkovic left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Bojan Brać 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.