Gabriel Bačan

Right Back - NK Krsko U20
13 Oct 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Gabriel Bačan

4 Edition

The NK Krsko Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jure Ribič is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Jure Ribič: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Cup progress for NK Krsko

A 1‑1 win over NK Krka, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

A brace, and Christophe Bertjens takes the afternoon — 8.54

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Christophe Bertjens provided it, and the 8.54 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Fran Penezić at 19 — 7.86

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Fran Penezić did not need any: 7.86, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Christophe Bertjens 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 Krsko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Christophe Bertjens sends NK Krsko past NK Zavrc

It finished 3‑2, and it was Christophe Bertjens’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to NK Krsko.

The terraces

NK Krsko supporters have found a favourite in Sven Opačić

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Sven Opačić 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.

Squad

Arda Yılmaztürk 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

Jure Zupan 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.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The NK Krsko Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

NK Krsko turn down Rudar Velenje for Jan Župančič

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

Player ratings

A first appearance Jakob Štrukelj will want to forget — 5.52

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.52, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Squad

Mansour Gueye 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 Krsko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Sven Opačić 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.

Match

NK Krsko come up short against Rudar Velenje

Rudar Velenje left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

NK Krsko and Tadej Petančič are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Rok Gorenc 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.

Market

Nobody at NK Krsko has picked up the phone to Mihajlo Maletić

48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Market

Gabriel Bačan told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Gabriel Bačan has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at NK Krsko.

In brief