Simon Sluga

Goalkeeper - NK Celje
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Marked for Simon Sluga

7 Edition

The NK Celje Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Sep 2026

Jordi Govea damages knee ligaments — 95 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 95 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market14 Sep 2026

Łukasz Bejger asks to leave NK Celje

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A row about effort at NK Celje

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Darko Hrka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Too much change too quickly at NK Celje

11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Rudi Požeg Vancaš was the difference for NK Celje

Marked 7.70. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Simon Sluga

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match12 Sep 2026

NK Celje and NK Maribor take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Kevin Janza: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Svit Sešlar was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

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5 Edition

The NK Celje Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad31 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jordi Govea

110 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. NK Celje lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match29 Aug 2026

ND Gorica punish NK Celje for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Svit Sešlar will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at NK Celje escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Simon Sluga keeps NK Celje in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Luka Vešner Tičić

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match29 Aug 2026

Svit Sešlar’s goal not enough for NK Celje

Svit Sešlar scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to ND Gorica, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Ninety minutes of Svit Sešlar at his very best

Marked 8.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at NK Celje.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Ninety minutes of Mark Zabukovnik at his very best

Marked 8.11. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at NK Celje.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Mario Kvesić

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mario Kvesić, and the manager let it.

Squad31 Aug 2026

5 NK Celje players away with their countries

The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 5 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.

In brief