The FK Senica Chronicle
Squad2 Apr 2029
Peter Hrosovsky damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
FK Senica put Andrej Rusnak on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
Crisis meeting at FK Senica
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Squad2 Apr 2029
A falling-out at FK Senica
Patrik Lukáč and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market2 Apr 2029
One of our own: Norbert Lobotka joins the FK Senica first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Norbert Lobotka is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market2 Apr 2029
FK Senica promote Matej Mak from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matej Mak has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market2 Apr 2029
One of our own: Michal Hrosovsky joins the FK Senica first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michal Hrosovsky is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market2 Apr 2029
Michal Pekarik steps up from the FK Senica academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michal Pekarik 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.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Oleg Nikiforenko 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
- Squad FK Senica lose Dominik Hubocan
- The dugout Matej Hamsik gets it from the manager
- The dugout Leonardo Bortoli without the man who signed him