Peter Bozenik

Left Wingback - Podbrezova U20
23 Jan 2036
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Peter Bozenik

472 Edition

The Podbrezova Sentinel

13 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Peter Bozenik

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

Squad

A fracture rules Libor Koníček out for 90 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Podbrezova will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Nobody wins at Podbrezova

15 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Market

Eyes on Matej Jurička again

The phone has started ringing about Matej Jurička again, and this time the name on the line is Bodo/Glimt. Podbrezova are listening politely and promising nothing.

Player ratings

Luka Silagadze runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Podbrezova

Luka Silagadze 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.

Squad

Balša Mrvaljević 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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Stanislav Ursolov

7.95, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Podbrezova had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Market

Zlate Moravce expected to open talks for Tomas Pekarik

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Podbrezova will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

Back issues
471 Edition

The Podbrezova Sentinel

6 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Peter Bozenik

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

Squad

A fracture rules Libor Koníček out for 97 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Podbrezova will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Šimon Faško has been here 12 seasons

230 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.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Luka Silagadze yet — 7.86

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.86 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Pele Smith is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Podbrezova is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Cody David signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cody David commits to Podbrezova for another 2 years.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Balša Mrvaljević

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Vincent Chyla the difference as Podbrezova beat MSK Zilina

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Vincent Chyla. 2‑1 against MSK Zilina, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market

MFK Skalica are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Podbrezova will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

470 Edition

The Podbrezova Sentinel

30 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Peter Bozenik

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

Squad

A fracture rules Libor Koníček out for 104 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Podbrezova will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Podbrezova make home a hard place to visit

14 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Tempers go at Podbrezova

Luka Silagadze 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

Eyes on Jakub Řehák again

The phone has started ringing about Jakub Řehák again, and this time the name on the line is MFK Skalica. Podbrezova are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Words at Podbrezova training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stanislav Ursolov 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.

Market

MFK Skalica expected to open talks for Pele Smith

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Podbrezova will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Player ratings

Balša Mrvaljević was the difference for Podbrezova

Marked 7.52. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Match

No goals between Podbrezova and Spartak Trnava

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Spartak Trnava will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

469 Edition

The Podbrezova Sentinel

23 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Peter Bozenik

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

Match

Podbrezova win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. MFK Ruzomberok will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Match

The run at home goes on for Podbrezova

13 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Boardroom

Michal Bero signs on for the long haul

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

Squad

Luka Silagadze 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 Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Podbrezova

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Words at Podbrezova training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Balša Mrvaljević 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Balša Mrvaljević

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Jan Duda steps up from the Podbrezova academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jan Duda 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.

In brief

468 Edition

The Podbrezova Sentinel

16 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Peter Bozenik

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

Squad

Tempers go at Podbrezova

Luka Silagadze 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

Eyes on Pele Smith again

The phone has started ringing about Pele Smith again, and this time the name on the line is MFK Skalica. Podbrezova are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief

442 Edition

The Podbrezova Sentinel

15 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Stanislav Ursolov breaks a bone — 93 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at Podbrezova

Luka Silagadze 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.

Squad

Cody David 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