The Rudar Velenje Courier
Market19 Jul 2027
Anas Ibrahimović asks to leave Rudar Velenje
“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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Giuseppe Agyemang due for a Rudar Velenje medical
Everything agreed with Koper, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Door shut on Dino Kojić
Rudar Velenje asked and Olimpija Ljubljana said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Rudar Velenje
Šime Gržan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Graduation day at Rudar Velenje
6 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
Lejs Pličanić 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
Rudar Velenje promote Andraz Kampl from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andraz Kampl 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
Rudar Velenje promote Benjamin Janza from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Benjamin Janza 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: Andraz Sesko joins the Rudar Velenje first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andraz Sesko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Boardroom The ground is getting bigger
- Loan watch Nemanja Studen has seen enough of Koper
- Looking ahead Aljaž Krefl faces his old club