The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle
Squad8 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Michal Sáček
33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gornik Zabrze lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Kacper Urbański 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 Gornik Zabrze this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A row about effort at Gornik Zabrze
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ondřej Zmrzlý was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Igor Świerkowski out for 36 days
The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Igor Świerkowski, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
Tomasz Loska is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Match6 Nov 2027
Gornik Zabrze share the spoils with Korona
A 1‑1 draw with Korona leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Bastien Donio
“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.
Market8 Nov 2027
Still no ink between Gornik Zabrze and Erik Janža
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Gornik Zabrze, another week without a signature from Erik Janža.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Tomasz Lewandowski chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
In brief
- Player ratings The chances came and went for Kacper Urbański
- The dugout Josema knocks on the manager's door
- Market The Roberto Massimo story refuses to die