The Koper Herald
Squad28 Dec 2026
Josip Iličič 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 Koper this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Dino Perić gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Luka Guček 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
When it matters, Bassirou Ndiaye plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes Florian Hartherz a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Koper. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market28 Dec 2026
The Leo Rimac talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Koper know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout Filip Damjanović keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Word from the training ground: Filip Damjanović
- Squad Welcome back, Jure Vipotnik