The Kapfenberg Herald
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Kapfenberg
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market26 Jul 2027
Polonia Bytom join the queue for David Puntigam
Add another name to the list: Polonia Bytom have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about David Puntigam. The answer from Kapfenberg has not changed — yet.
Market26 Jul 2027
Heinz Prass steps up from the Kapfenberg academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Heinz Prass 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
One of our own: Christoph Ulmer joins the Kapfenberg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Christoph Ulmer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Jul 2027
Kapfenberg promote Thomas Alaba from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thomas Alaba 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Kapfenberg
Tomás Candelaresi 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Kapfenberg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bleron Krasniqi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
Kapfenberg say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
Looking ahead26 Jul 2027
Ousmane Diawara faces his old club
Altach next, and one man in the Kapfenberg dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
- Squad Alexander Briedl has company in his position
- The dugout Meletios Mišković knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead Kapfenberg host Altach