The Podbrezova Sentinel
Squad19 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Branislav Niňaj
102 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
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.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Graduation day at Podbrezova
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Samuel Štefánik 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Podbrezova promote Samuel Mak from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samuel 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Jan Duda joins the Podbrezova first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jan Duda is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Adam Kucka joins the Podbrezova first team
- Market One of our own: Filip Pekarik joins the Podbrezova first team
- Squad Rene Rantuša Lampreht has become a man the manager trusts
- Boardroom Podbrezova spend it where nobody looks