Mate Simunovic

Right Midfielder - Segesta U20
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Mate Simunovic

15 Edition

The Segesta Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

6 matches without a win for Segesta

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Segesta are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Stipo Marković beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Tempers go at Segesta

Vilim Gec was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Marcelo Corluka steps up from the Segesta academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marcelo Corluka 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.

Market

One of our own: Mate Simunovic joins the Segesta first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mate Simunovic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Match

Segesta rescue it on 85 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 85. Cibalia had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

Logan Briggs left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Logan Briggs will call it something else in private.

Match

Segesta share the spoils with Cibalia

A 1‑1 draw with Cibalia leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Marko Brkić 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.

In brief