The St. Pölten Gazette
Player ratings31 Jul 2034
A brace, and Danyal Zor takes the afternoon — 8.33
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Danyal Zor provided it, and the 8.33 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match29 Jul 2034
St. Pölten end the wait against First Vienna
It had gone 11 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
The dugout31 Jul 2034
Hatim Es-Saouabi: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” St. Pölten have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings31 Jul 2034
Jamie Jellis, 33, rolls back the years — 7.88
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.88 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market31 Jul 2034
Only the photograph left for Raphael Kalajdzic
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Raphael Kalajdzic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around St. Pölten the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad31 Jul 2034
Tempers go at St. Pölten
Tyrese Campbell 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.
Squad31 Jul 2034
Home is on Felipe Anso's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; St. Pölten are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Boardroom31 Jul 2034
Graduation day at St. Pölten
13 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match29 Jul 2034
Danyal Zor sends St. Pölten past First Vienna
It finished 3‑1, and it was Danyal Zor’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to St. Pölten.
In brief
- Squad Words at St. Pölten training over how hard people work
- Market Florian Alaba steps up from the St. Pölten academy
- Market Raphael Grillitsch steps up from the St. Pölten academy