Benjamin Birsa

Left Forward - NK Domzale U20
24 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Benjamin Birsa

104 Edition

The NK Domzale Courier

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Nejc Bijol damages knee ligaments — 52 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 52 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Market

Gregor Oblak raises the bar for NK Domzale

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at NK Domzale heard it as anything else.

Boardroom

Luka Ilicic signs on for the long haul

NK Domzale moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Luka Ilicic, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.

Match

The wait goes on for NK Domzale

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Real improvement from Anas Ibrahimović at NK Domzale

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Anas Ibrahimović is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Boardroom

Graduation day at NK Domzale

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

No hiding place for Gregor Oblak

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

Market

NK Domzale promote Timi Handanovic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Timi Handanovic 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.

In brief