Ivan Sanchez

Centre Forward - Rudes
24 Jan 2027
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The Rudes Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dominik Mulac 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 Rudes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Rudes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sverrir Ingi Ingason 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 Jurica Poldrugač

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

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The Rudes Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Rudes strike at the death to beat Hrvatski Dragovoljac

There were 87 minutes on the clock and Hrvatski Dragovoljac had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Rudes did not stop to explain themselves.

Squad

Vedran Celjak 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 Rudes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Kristijan Lovrić 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Riad Mašala

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Riad Mašala the difference as Rudes beat Hrvatski Dragovoljac

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Riad Mašala. 1‑0 against Hrvatski Dragovoljac, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Ante Sušak

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.

Market

Rudes and Karlo Kralj are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings

Ivan Žutić shuts the door

Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

Ivan Đorić was the difference for Rudes

Marked 7.48. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief