Daniel Darida

Right Midfielder - Free Agent
17 Dec 2029
Monday
Process

Marked for Daniel Darida

78 Edition

The Chrudim Courier

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Daniel Darida damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.

Squad

Ondřej Bláha arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ondřej Bláha has, at Chrudim, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Chrudim

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Dario Grgić is carrying Chrudim

17 goals and a season average of 7.30. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Transfer targets

Dominik Sváček is a medical away from Chrudim

The deal with Zbrojovka Brno is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Player ratings

Divine Teah beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

David Jurčenko 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 Chrudim this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Chrudim rebuffed over Ondřej Šašinka

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Spartak Trnava have kept their man, and Chrudim go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Looking ahead

Chrudim and Sparta Prague B meet at the summit

The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.

In brief

Back issues
77 Edition

The Chrudim Courier

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Darida

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chrudim lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Chrudim say no — this time

The offer from Petržalka for Ondřej Pavlík was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Match

The run at home goes on for Chrudim

11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

Remember the name: Divine Teah

He is 21, he is averaging 7.24, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Transfer targets

Jan Sirotník due for a Chrudim medical

Everything agreed with Slavia Prague, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Match

Chrudim cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Tempers go at Chrudim

David Jurčenko 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

Dario Grgić 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.

Transfer targets

Chrudim rebuffed over Michael Atata

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pardubice have kept their man, and Chrudim go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief