The Koper Herald
Squad21 Dec 2026
124 days out for Josip Iličič after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Koper will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market21 Dec 2026
Giuseppe Agyemang asks to leave Koper
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
No hiding place for Nsana Simon
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nsana Simon, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Check Oumar Diakité knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Koper, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
When it matters, Luka Guček 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
The Check Oumar Diakité story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Check Oumar Diakité signs something — a contract at Koper or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
Nobody is scoring past Lan Jovanović at Jadran Dekani
5 shut-outs in 18 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Lan Jovanović has been having a lot of them.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
The goals keep arriving from Sandro Jovanović’s exile
3 goals in 16 games at Primorje — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Koper updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
3 goals on loan for Aljaž Zalaznik
16 appearances at Brinje Grosuplje and the goals keep coming. Koper are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
In brief
- Squad Bernardo Matić is training like a man with a point to make
- The dugout The manager comes out for Giuseppe Agyemang
- Squad Gregor Oblak is fit again