Matej Marojević

Central Midfielder - Cibalia U18
14 Oct 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Matej Marojević

10 Edition

The Cibalia Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Matej Marojević

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

Market

Marcos Gómez hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cibalia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Britto keeps the receipts

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

Match

The wait goes on for Cibalia

4 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Cibalia

Šime Gržan 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.

Squad

Luka Marijanović is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Cibalia

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Boardroom

153% of the income goes out in wages at Cibalia

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Player ratings

Greg Houla runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. 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
9 Edition

The Cibalia Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Matej Marojević damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 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

Šime Gržan 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 Cibalia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for Cibalia against Sesvete

0‑2 to Sesvete, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Renato Kelić 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

Mariano Cristaldo 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.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Ante Kuliš

9 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

In brief