Matúš Baštek

Goalkeeper - Pohronie
3 Oct 2026
Saturday
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Marked for Matúš Baštek

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The Pohronie Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Chastening afternoon for Pohronie

A 0‑3 beating by Petržalka was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Gia Nadareishvili

Pohronie asked and AS Trencin said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Enzo Arevalo 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Igor Šemrinec

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

Boardroom

Doors closed at Pohronie

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

Samuel Skriniar faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Samuel Skriniar after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

The form table has caught Michal Jonec

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Looking ahead

Elvis Akpooghene Isaac faces his old club

Slovan Bratislava U21 next, and one man in the Pohronie dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Squad

The shirt belongs to Michal Řezáč now

At 29 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Pohronie have a decision that made itself.

In brief

Back issues
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The Pohronie Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Window shuts: 24 in, 19 out at Pohronie

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 24 arrived, 19 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Eric Hunal

Pohronie asked and Zbrojovka Brno said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Pohronie to Šimon Sabolčík

The clock did what FC Košice would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Squad

Matej Mazuch signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matej Mazuch commits to Pohronie for another 3 years.

Market

Pohronie buy the years ahead of Michal Lukáč

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

Pohronie sign Matúš Baštek, one for the future

Matúš Baštek is 20, and Pohronie have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

Jozef Špyrka moves up the pecking order

Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Pohronie than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.

The dugout

Adrián Lutka has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Pohronie 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.

Squad

The dressing room has a star in it

Elvis Akpooghene Isaac arrived with a record at a bigger club than this one, and the room has treated him accordingly. The young ones watch him train; the senior ones watch to see whether it lasts.

In brief