The FK Senica Chronicle
Match21 Jul 2029
24 matches without a win for FK Senica
The run now stands at 24, and the questions being asked around FK Senica are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom23 Jul 2029
FK Senica part company with Andrej Rusnak
The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Milan Mak damages knee ligaments — 75 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 75 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market23 Jul 2029
Oleg Nikiforenko agrees terms with AS Trencin
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around FK Senica people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad23 Jul 2029
A fracture rules Miroslav Benes out for 81 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FK Senica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Jul 2029
7 saves: Patrik Lukáč was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Boardroom23 Jul 2029
Samuel Skriniar takes charge at FK Senica
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Squad23 Jul 2029
The step up is real for Albert Kucka
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Boardroom23 Jul 2029
8 academy players handed senior numbers at FK Senica
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.
In brief
- Match FK Senica come up short against Spartak Trnava
- Market Ivan Bero steps up from the FK Senica academy
- Market FK Senica promote Jan Hrosovsky from within