Daniel Lang

Central Defender - Haladas
10 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Lang

19 Edition

The Haladas Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

David Fiola stands alone

9 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.

Market

Norbert Nagy asks to leave Haladas

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Viktor Fiola runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

No end in sight to Haladas's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Haladas has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Daniel Lang signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Lang and Haladas agree another 2 years.

Squad

Gerardo Montanari 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 Haladas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Viktor Fiola 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

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Norbert Szoboszlai was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Haladas dressing room was either.

The dugout

Viktor Fiola has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Haladas 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.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Haladas Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Haladas beaten on the continent

2‑3 against Basel, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.

Squad

8 saves: David Fiola was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

Viktor Fiola breaks Debrecen hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Viktor Fiola scored in the 85th minute, Debrecen had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Haladas took the lot.

Match

Viktor Fiola sends Haladas past Debrecen

It finished 1‑0, and it was Viktor Fiola’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Haladas.

Player ratings

Janos Szalai in the eights

A performance of 8.35 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Viktor Fiola at his very best

Marked 8.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Haladas.

Squad

Daniel Lang signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Lang and Haladas agree another 1 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Haladas

David Nagy and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Viktor Fiola 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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Haladas Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

David Fiola stands alone

10 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.

Market

Haladas turn down Paksi for Daniel Lang

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Dominik Varga hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Haladas can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Zsolt Lang moves on

MTK Budapest pay $790.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

David Nagy 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 Haladas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Haladas

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Viktor Fiola was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Adam Botka moves on

Honved pay $51.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Patrik Vydra

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Viktor Fiola

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

In brief