Predrag Matic

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Ušće U18
12 May 2029
Saturday
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The Ušće Herald

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

The dugout

Uroš Filipović keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ušće may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

Nobody wants to play Ušće right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Petar Đuričković 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 Ušće this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Ušće walk away from Dominik Gregorski

$38.0K was the most the club would pay and FAP Priboj were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Boardroom

4 academy graduates step up at Ušće

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Transfer targets

Ušće rebuffed over Slaviša Bogdanović

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Trayal Kruševac have kept their man, and Ušće go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Ušće get the job done against Smederevo 1924

A 2‑1 win over Smederevo 1924, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Natan Waligóra

At 20 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.

Market

Ušće promote Filip Mladenovic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Filip Mladenovic 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.

In brief