The Banik Ostrava Herald
Match27 Feb 2027
9 unbeaten for Banik Ostrava
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Banik Ostrava did not have in the autumn.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Banik Ostrava
Filip Kubala and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market1 Mar 2027
Pavel Vydra steps up from the Banik Ostrava academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pavel Vydra 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Antonin Coufal steps up from the Banik Ostrava academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Antonin Coufal 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Adam Darida steps up from the Banik Ostrava academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Adam Darida 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Banik Ostrava promote Pavel Barak from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pavel Barak 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Banik Ostrava
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dennis Owusu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Dantaye Gilbert wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Banik Ostrava know it.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Srđan Plavšić was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.08. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- The dugout Ondřej Mihálik gets it from the manager
- Match Abdallah Gning rescues a point for Banik Ostrava
- The dugout The view from the dugout