Norbert Lang

Right Forward - Szentlőrinc U18
30 Sep 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Norbert Lang

70 Edition

The Szentlőrinc Gazette

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Norbert Lang damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 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

Anger at Szentlőrinc spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

Máté Adamcsek leads the rout of Paksi

4‑0, and Máté Adamcsek took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Szentlőrinc tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Máté Adamcsek scores twice — 8.49

Two goals and a mark of 8.49 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Tempers go at Szentlőrinc

Toon Raemaekers 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Levente Márta

At 21 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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 141% of the Szentlőrinc income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Olivér Dinnyés

“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.

Squad

István Harsányi 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.

In brief

Back issues
69 Edition

The Szentlőrinc Gazette

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Norbert Lang

24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Szentlőrinc lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Martin Auerbach keeps Szentlőrinc in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Sultan Al-Saadi 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 Szentlőrinc this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Szentlőrinc

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and István Harsányi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Szentlőrinc share the spoils with Mezőkövesd

A 1‑1 draw with Mezőkövesd leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Levente Márta

“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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Dominik Fiola chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

Olivér Dinnyés left out for tactical reasons at Szentlőrinc

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Looking ahead

Bence Kocsis faces his old club

Paksi next, and one man in the Szentlőrinc dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief