The Zbrojovka Brno Herald
Squad11 Sep 2028
Amadou Danté 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.
Market11 Sep 2028
Zbrojovka Brno promote Daniel Sima from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Sima has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market11 Sep 2028
Zbrojovka Brno promote Ales Stanek from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ales Stanek has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market11 Sep 2028
Filip Sima steps up from the Zbrojovka Brno academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Filip Sima has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market11 Sep 2028
One of our own: Patrik Masopust joins the Zbrojovka Brno first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrik Masopust is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Solomon John
“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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Zbrojovka Brno
Stan Ashbee 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Justin Lonwijk: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Zbrojovka Brno will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
Jakub Klíma knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jakub Klíma trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Jakub Klíma
- Squad Justin Lonwijk remains an outsider
- The dugout Aleksa Marković gets picked when it counts