Albert Mak

Right Midfielder - Zlate Moravce U20
11 Dec 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Albert Mak

58 Edition

The Zlate Moravce Herald

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ivan Andonov damages knee ligaments — 43 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 43 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.

The terraces

The mood at Zlate Moravce has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Albert Mak breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at Zlate Moravce

Kristián Koštrna 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

Words at Zlate Moravce training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adam Pudil 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

Honours even between Zlate Moravce and Spartak Trnava

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

Back issues
57 Edition

The Zlate Moravce Herald

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Albert Mak breaks a bone — 24 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Kristián Koštrna 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 Zlate Moravce this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Matěj Helebrand 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 terraces

Zlate Moravce supporters have found a favourite in Ivan Andonov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ivan Andonov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Gregor Tóth

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Filip Rózga

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

56 Edition

The Zlate Moravce Herald

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cup progress for Zlate Moravce

A 2‑0 win over MFK Michalovce, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

Albert Mak breaks a bone — 31 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Fábio Dias, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.73

A mark of 7.73 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.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Karol Mondek yet — 8.03

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.03 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Maximilián Halo goes up and wins it — 7.62

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 7.62 for the rest of it.

Squad

Denis Duga 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 Zlate Moravce this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Abdulqader Abdullah is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Words at Zlate Moravce training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kristián Koštrna 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Maximilián Halo

At 23 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.

In brief