Lars Wolf

Left Forward - Odra Opole
25 Nov 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Lars Wolf

64 Edition

The Odra Opole Gazette

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for Odra Opole

A 2‑1 win over Raków Częstochowa, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

7 saves: Eric Topór was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

A falling-out at Odra Opole

Kacper Przybyłko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces

Odra Opole supporters have found a favourite in Taine Anderson

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Taine Anderson 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.

Match

Kacper Przybyłko sends Odra Opole past Chrobry Głogów

It finished 1‑0, and it was Kacper Przybyłko’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Odra Opole.

Squad

Filip Kendzia 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.

Player ratings

The game went through Adam Chrzanowski — 7.26

Marked 7.26 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

The dugout

Filip Kendzia 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.

Player ratings

Michał Feliks was the difference for Odra Opole

Marked 7.93. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Odra Opole Gazette

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Adam Wójcik breaks a bone — 16 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Konrad Nowak puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Odra Opole, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Kacper Przybyłko, 33, rolls back the years — 7.99

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.99 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Michał Paluch gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Michał Paluch has just signed for Odra Opole, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

A falling-out at Odra Opole

Joyskim Dawa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Odra Opole training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adrian Liber 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.

Transfer targets

AEL tell Odra Opole: Karol Angielski is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Odra Opole get the job done against Pogoń Siedlce

A 2‑0 win over Pogoń Siedlce, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Filip Kendzia

“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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Kaiserslautern Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Kaiserslautern make their move for Keito Nakamura

$22.1M on the table at Stade de Reims. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

Kaiserslautern rebuffed over Tjark Ernst

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hertha BSC have kept their man, and Kaiserslautern go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Neal Gibs puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kaiserslautern, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Kapfenberg come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Kaiserslautern did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

A falling-out at Kaiserslautern

Mërgim Berisha and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Kaiserslautern

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

Transfer targets

Kaiserslautern try to borrow Luca Philipp

TSG Hoffenheim have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

Lars Wolf signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lars Wolf commits to Kaiserslautern for another 3 years.

Squad

José Martínez remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Kaiserslautern would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief