The First Vienna Gazette
Squad12 Feb 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sebastian Dirnberger
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. First Vienna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Quincy Butler 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 First Vienna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Feb 2029
A muscle injury and 17 days out for Josef Weberbauer
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. First Vienna will quote 17 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Words at First Vienna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isaac Babadi 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.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2029
First Vienna rebuffed over Alioune Ndoye
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Famalicao have kept their man, and First Vienna go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
No hiding place for Nikola Maraš
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikola Maraš, and the manager let it.
Market12 Feb 2029
Thomas Lazaro steps up from the First Vienna academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thomas Lazaro 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.
Market12 Feb 2029
First Vienna promote Thomas Trimmel from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thomas Trimmel 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.
Market12 Feb 2029
One of our own: Dejan Dragovic joins the First Vienna first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dejan Dragovic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market First Vienna promote Thomas Lainer from within
- The dugout Nikola Maraš gets picked when it counts
- The dugout A door opens for Dean Titkov