Andrej Valjent

Striker - MFK Ruzomberok U20
30 Jan 2036
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Andrej Valjent

480 Edition

The MFK Ruzomberok Chronicle

8 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to MFK Ruzomberok's wait for a win

16 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at MFK Ruzomberok has to find a result from somewhere.

The terraces

The mood at MFK Ruzomberok 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.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrej Valjent

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. MFK Ruzomberok lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Marián Chobot has been here 12 seasons

381 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Daniel Köstl stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Köstl and MFK Ruzomberok agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words at MFK Ruzomberok training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ján Murgaš 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.

In brief

Back issues
479 Edition

The MFK Ruzomberok Chronicle

1 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to MFK Ruzomberok's wait for a win

15 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at MFK Ruzomberok has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrej Valjent

26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. MFK Ruzomberok lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Every point is an argument now for MFK Ruzomberok

Position 11 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Alessandro Zonta has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around MFK Ruzomberok they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Marián Chobot has been here 12 seasons

380 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Denis Baumgartner 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 MFK Ruzomberok this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ján Murgaš 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.

Match

Elly Owande’s goal not enough for MFK Ruzomberok

Elly Owande scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to FK Senica, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Market

The Dávid Húska question follows MFK Ruzomberok around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Dávid Húska’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief