Robert Benes

Right Midfielder - Slávia TU Košice U18
4 Feb 2028
Friday
Process

Marked for Robert Benes

12 Edition

The Slávia TU Košice Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Robert Benes out for 16 days

16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Slávia TU Košice lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Slávia TU Košice leave it late against Pohronie

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 86th, and Pohronie spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Player ratings

Hamza Martinović, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.04

A mark of 8.04 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Michal Piter-Bučko 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 Slávia TU Košice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Slávia TU Košice training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rhyan Modesto is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Šimon Ivan sends Slávia TU Košice past Pohronie

It finished 2‑1, and it was Šimon Ivan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Slávia TU Košice.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Šimon Ivan

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

Filip Kráľ gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

21 new faces, and Slávia TU Košice are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Slávia TU Košice Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Robert Benes damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 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

Rhyan Modesto 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Slávia TU Košice

Tobiáš Diviš and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

The decline has begun for Alexandre Vardin

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 37 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Slávia TU Košice is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jakub Port

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

Looking ahead

Hamza Martinović goes back to face Pohronie

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Hamza Martinović’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Slávia TU Košice needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

2 Edition

The Slávia TU Košice Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Richard Pečarka gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Richard Pečarka has just signed for Slávia TU Košice, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

6 saves: Andrej Mikoláš was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

Tempers go at Slávia TU Košice

Richard Pečarka 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

Marcel Plavnik signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcel Plavnik commits to Slávia TU Košice for another 3 years.

Transfer targets

AS Trencin tell Slávia TU Košice: Clement Ansah 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.

Market

Robert Hubocan steps up from the Slávia TU Košice academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Robert Hubocan has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Slávia TU Košice promote Miroslav Duda from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miroslav Duda 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.

Market

Slávia TU Košice promote Samuel Kucka from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samuel Kucka 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.

Market

Robert Benes steps up from the Slávia TU Košice academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Robert Benes has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief