The NK Zavrc Chronicle
The terraces24 Sep 2035
The mood at NK Zavrc has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad24 Sep 2035
Sandi Lovric breaks a bone — 20 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market24 Sep 2035
Benjamin Kampl 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 NK Zavrc can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Sep 2035
Gabriel Tavares 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 NK Zavrc this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Sep 2035
Words at NK Zavrc training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessandro Boi 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.
Squad24 Sep 2035
Tommaso Filippi gets it from the manager
“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.
Match22 Sep 2035
NK Zavrc share the spoils with ND Gorica
A 1‑1 draw with ND Gorica leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings24 Sep 2035
Tommaso Filippi leaves them behind him
Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings24 Sep 2035
Ihojan Pérez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Player ratings A day to forget for Simon Morgan
- Player ratings A day to forget for Miha Handanovic
- Market Marc Renault leaves for nothing