The Podbrezova Sentinel
Squad23 Jul 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Peter Bozenik
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Podbrezova lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match21 Jul 2035
Podbrezova win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. MFK Ruzomberok will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Match21 Jul 2035
The run at home goes on for Podbrezova
13 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Boardroom23 Jul 2035
Michal Bero signs on for the long haul
Podbrezova moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Michal Bero, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Luka Silagadze 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 Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom23 Jul 2035
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Podbrezova
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.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Words at Podbrezova training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Balša Mrvaljević 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.
Player ratings23 Jul 2035
Nobody could get near Balša Mrvaljević
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market23 Jul 2035
Jan Duda steps up from the Podbrezova academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jan Duda 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
- Market Podbrezova promote Martin Hrosovsky from within
- Market Podbrezova promote Patrik Lobotka from within
- Market One of our own: Dominik Nemec joins the Podbrezova first team