Marek Mak

Goalkeeper - DAC Dunajska Streda U20
23 Apr 2034
Sunday
Process

Marked for Marek Mak

383 Edition

The DAC Dunajska Streda Courier

28 Nov 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

DAC Dunajska Streda tear Podbrezova apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Podbrezova, and it could have been more.

Market

Chichi Capo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around DAC Dunajska Streda they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at DAC Dunajska Streda

Miha Kompan Breznik 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

Artur Gajdoš 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.

The terraces

DAC Dunajska Streda supporters have found a favourite in Luis Pinto

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Luis Pinto 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Artur Ukhan

Marked 8.64 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match

Rabby Mateta Pepa at the heart of a fast DAC Dunajska Streda start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Rabby Mateta Pepa in the middle of it, and Podbrezova unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Squad

Emmanuel Godwin reaches 200 appearances

200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Rabby Mateta Pepa at his very best

Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at DAC Dunajska Streda.

In brief

  • Squad Marek Mak out for 28 days
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Sadiq Auwal gets it from the manager
Back issues
354 Edition

The DAC Dunajska Streda Courier

9 May 2033
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Aleksandre Turkia

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Aleksandre Turkia will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around DAC Dunajska Streda the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at DAC Dunajska Streda

Victor Udoh 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.

Squad

Words at DAC Dunajska Streda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artur Gajdoš 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

Still no ink between DAC Dunajska Streda and Lucas Çekrezi

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at DAC Dunajska Streda, another week without a signature from Lucas Çekrezi.

The dugout

Emmanuel Godwin gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Emmanuel Godwin is on it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ştefan Opriş

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Stefan Đukanović asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

Still no signature from Lucas Çekrezi

4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what DAC Dunajska Streda could get for him.

The dugout

The manager makes Rúben Cardoso a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at DAC Dunajska Streda. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief