The Smederevo 1924 Gazette
Squad12 Oct 2026
The knee: Nenad Ilic out for 17 days
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Smederevo 1924 lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Aleksandar Pantić is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 34 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Smederevo 1924
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marko Zebić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Sasa Milenkovic joins the Smederevo 1924 first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sasa Milenkovic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Todor Glišović 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
24 new faces, and Smederevo 1924 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Matija Popović is still paying for one afternoon at Smederevo 1924
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Mihajlo Spasojević goes back to face Grafičar
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Mihajlo Spasojević’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Smederevo 1924 needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes Vladimir Karajčić a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Smederevo 1924. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- The dugout Vuk Borović knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Grafičar