The Hartberg Gazette
Match18 Sep 2032
Whatever happens, Hartberg do not lose
11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market20 Sep 2032
Filip Vecheta wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Hartberg hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Player ratings20 Sep 2032
Maximilian Fillafer runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad20 Sep 2032
A row about effort at Hartberg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fabian Wilfinger was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad20 Sep 2032
A falling-out at Hartberg
Žiga Repas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match18 Sep 2032
At last: Hartberg win one
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Altach. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Market20 Sep 2032
One of our own: Marko Junuzovic joins the Hartberg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marko Junuzovic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market20 Sep 2032
One of our own: Sebastian Posch joins the Hartberg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sebastian Posch is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market20 Sep 2032
Markus Onisiwo steps up from the Hartberg academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Markus Onisiwo 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
- Match Hartberg find a way past Altach
- Squad Milorad Stajić wants to go home
- Player ratings Jonas Karner takes the honours