The Napredak Courier
Squad9 Nov 2026
The knee: Nikola Srećković out for 111 days
111 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Napredak lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad9 Nov 2026
104 days out for Nebojša Bastajić after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Napredak will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Luka Krstović, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.11
A mark of 8.11 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Napredak
Nemanja Stevanović and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match7 Nov 2026
Napredak get the job done against Zeleznicar Pancevo
A 2‑1 win over Zeleznicar Pancevo, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
Napredak supporters have found a favourite in Vladimir Ignatenko
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Vladimir Ignatenko 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
One of our own: Nikola Vlahovic joins the Napredak first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nikola Vlahovic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market9 Nov 2026
Nenad Matic steps up from the Napredak academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nenad Matic 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Filip Krstić 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.
In brief
- Match Napredak at the halfway mark
- Player ratings An own goal to forget for Andrija Majdevac
- The dugout Sinisa Ilic has his say