Skima Togbe

Defensive Midfielder - Novi Pazar
31 Aug 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Skima Togbe

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The Novi Pazar Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Željko Samčović keeps Novi Pazar in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Skima Togbe at 20 — 7.88

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Skima Togbe did not need any: 7.88, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Eyes on Matija Malekinušić again

The phone has started ringing about Matija Malekinušić again, and this time the name on the line is Cukaricki. Novi Pazar are listening politely and promising nothing.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Driton Camaj

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Novi Pazar find a way past Napredak

Napredak made Novi Pazar work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Tempers go at Novi Pazar

Ivan Davidović 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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Jovan Manev

17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Player ratings

Jovan Marinković shuts the door

Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Fejsal Mulić is off the mark for Novi Pazar

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Novi Pazar Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Željko Samčović

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Jovan Manev goes up and wins it — 7.08

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.08 for the rest of it.

Squad

Driton Camaj 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 Novi Pazar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Novi Pazar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Bijelović is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Driton Camaj

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces

Novi Pazar supporters have found a favourite in Mihajlo Petković

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Mihajlo Petković 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.

Match

Jovan Manev the difference as Novi Pazar beat Spartak Subotica

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jovan Manev. 1‑0 against Spartak Subotica, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Matija Malekinušić 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.

Market

Nobody at Novi Pazar has picked up the phone to Luka Bijelović

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.

In brief