Marked for Marcel Dragovic
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Marcel Dragovic, 33, rolls back the years — 8.26
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.26 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match16 Oct 2027
No end in sight to Admira Wacker's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Admira Wacker has to find a result from somewhere.
Match16 Oct 2027
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad18 Oct 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Admira Wacker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Peter Tschernegg 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.26 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Luís Fernandes is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Guido Weimann 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Martin Hinteregger 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 terraces13 Sep 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Heinz Onisiwo 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.
Match11 Sep 2027
Three points for Admira Wacker, 2‑0 the final word against Grodig in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“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.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Ninety minutes of Stefan Wimmer at his very best
Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Admira Wacker.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
Valentino Ilsanker 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Marcel Dragovic
“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.
Match14 Nov 2026
0‑1 to Mattersburg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Admira Wacker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
Sturm Graz left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcel Dragovic, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
7 new faces, and Admira Wacker are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Peter Tschernegg 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Valentino Ilsanker 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Wimmer 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.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Admira Wacker scored in the 94th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market17 Aug 2026
Latina come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Admira Wacker did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Admira Wacker have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Admira Wacker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Altach, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Ilsanker commits to Admira Wacker for another 3 years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Guido Kalajdzic 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.