Marcel Alaba

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz U18
4 Jan 2028
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Process

Marked for Marcel Alaba

43 Edition

The Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz Chronicle

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Marcel Alaba damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.

Market

Kilian Kretschmer hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz

Martin Moormann 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Levan Eloshvili

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Levan Eloshvili, and the manager let it.

Loan watch

Marco Rottensteiner wants to come home

“I did not go to Admira Wacker to sit and watch. I want to come back to Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 16 matches say the rest.

Boardroom

Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz now.

In brief

Back issues
42 Edition

The Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz Chronicle

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Marcel Alaba damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 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

Tempers go at Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz

Martin Moormann 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

Mazou Bambara 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 dugout

A door opens for Dragan Marčeta

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

The dugout

Kilian Kretschmer knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kilian Kretschmer trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Isak Vojić is training like a man with a point to make

Nobody has promised him anything and he has not asked. The coaching staff have noticed, which at this stage of a season is the only thing that matters.

In brief

41 Edition

The Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz Chronicle

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Marcel Alaba damages knee ligaments — 33 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 33 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

Martin Moormann 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 Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Still no ink between Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz and Martin Moormann

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz, another week without a signature from Martin Moormann.

Squad

Mazou Bambara 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.

Market

The Ryan Ogam question follows Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ryan Ogam’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Jan Stefanon has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jan Stefanon has written the date down.

In brief

2 Edition

The Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ammar Helac 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. Ammar Helac has, at Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz make their move for Luka Reischl

$1.9M on the table at ADO Den Haag. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Player ratings

Marko Martinović goes up and wins it — 7.44

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.44 for the rest of it.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on John Dembe

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz have done the hard part with Sigma Olomouc, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Sebastian Dirnberger 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 Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Martin Moormann 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

Sparta Prague tell Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz: Daniel Rus is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ammar Helac

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ammar Helac, and the manager let it.

Market

One of our own: Marcel Alaba joins the Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcel Alaba is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief