Štěpán Hruban

Goalkeeper - Jihlava
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Marked for Štěpán Hruban

144 Edition

The Banik Ostrava Herald

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad30 Apr 2029

A fracture rules Filip Kubala out for 15 days

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

Squad30 Apr 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stefan Pirgić

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

Boardroom30 Apr 2029

Pressure builds in the Banik Ostrava boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market30 Apr 2029

Pablo Ortiz asks to leave Banik Ostrava

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market30 Apr 2029

Pablo Ortiz is on his way

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

Squad30 Apr 2029

A falling-out at Banik Ostrava

Filip Kubala and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad30 Apr 2029

Štěpán Hruban is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.

The dugout30 Apr 2029

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The dugout30 Apr 2029

When it matters, David Látal plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

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134 Edition

The Banik Ostrava Herald

19 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market19 Feb 2029

Ondřej Kričfaluši puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Banik Ostrava, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad19 Feb 2029

Tempers go at Banik Ostrava

Filip Kubala 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.

Squad19 Feb 2029

A row about effort at Banik Ostrava

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Karel Pojezný was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets19 Feb 2029

Banik Ostrava rebuffed over Facinet Conté

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. St. Gallen have kept their man, and Banik Ostrava go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout19 Feb 2029

The manager makes an example of Samuel Grygar

“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.

Boardroom19 Feb 2029

Wages eat 101% of everything Banik Ostrava earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout19 Feb 2029

Filip Kubala has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Banik Ostrava will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad19 Feb 2029

The formation has left Stefan Pirgić behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Banik Ostrava will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Market19 Feb 2029

The Jiří Boula question follows Banik Ostrava around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jiří Boula’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

130 Edition

The Banik Ostrava Herald

22 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market22 Jan 2029

Ondřej Kričfaluši 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 Banik Ostrava can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom22 Jan 2029

Banik Ostrava to lose Pablo Ortiz for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Pablo Ortiz has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad22 Jan 2029

Tempers go at Banik Ostrava

Filip Kubala 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.

Squad22 Jan 2029

A row about effort at Banik Ostrava

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jiří Boula was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom22 Jan 2029

Banik Ostrava agree a free transfer for Jaroslav Málek

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Transfer targets22 Jan 2029

St. Gallen tell Banik Ostrava: Facinet Conté is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout22 Jan 2029

No hiding place for Ladislav Takács

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

Match20 Jan 2029

Banik Ostrava find a way past Slovacko

Slovacko made Banik Ostrava work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad22 Jan 2029

Pablo Ortiz wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Banik Ostrava know it.

In brief