David Botka

Right Midfielder - Haladas
10 Dec 2026
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Marked for David Botka

12 Edition

The Haladas Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Oct 2026

The knee: Daniel Gulacsi out for 27 days

27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Haladas lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Zoltan Kleinheisler stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Gergő Tercza at Haladas

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gergő Tercza is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Haladas

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

Match17 Oct 2026

Debrecen take the points off Haladas

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Haladas keep their word to Bendegúz Kovács

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Tamas Szoboszlai left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Márk Szécsi dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near David Botka

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Haladas Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

No sign of nerves from Bendegúz Kovács at 19 — 8.77

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bendegúz Kovács did not need any: 8.77, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Bendegúz Kovács is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Haladas end the wait against MTK Budapest

It had gone 8 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

The terraces28 Sep 2026

One of their own: Bendegúz Kovács

He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match26 Sep 2026

Haladas find a way past MTK Budapest

MTK Budapest made Haladas work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at Haladas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bohdan Biloshevskyi 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 ratings28 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near David Botka

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Haladas

Mate Sallai 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.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Tamas Szoboszlai: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief