Daniel Köstl

Right Back - MFK Ruzomberok
11 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Köstl

10 Edition

The MFK Ruzomberok Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Aleksa Todorović is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

The wait goes on for MFK Ruzomberok

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tomáš Král 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 MFK Ruzomberok this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Marko Kelemen

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

Squad

Giuliano Antonio Marek signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Giuliano Antonio Marek and MFK Ruzomberok agree another 4 years.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Oliver Luterán

A mark of 7.82, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match

Honours even between MFK Ruzomberok and Podbrezova

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market

MFK Ruzomberok and Daniel Köstl are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings

Marko Kelemen could have had three

7 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief

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9 Edition

The MFK Ruzomberok Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Ondřej Šašinka puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at MFK Ruzomberok, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at MFK Ruzomberok

Tomáš Král 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.

Match

MFK Ruzomberok come up short against FK Senica

FK Senica left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

No hiding place for Martin Chrien

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

Squad

Words at MFK Ruzomberok training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vojtěch Novák 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 ratings

Marko Kelemen could have had three

9 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

Squad

Martin Šulek asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Player ratings

Jan Hladík runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

The Martin Chrien question follows MFK Ruzomberok around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Martin Chrien’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

4 Edition

The MFK Ruzomberok Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Cup progress for MFK Ruzomberok

A 1‑0 win over Spartak Myjava, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Market

Alexander Selecký hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what MFK Ruzomberok can pretend not to have heard.

Market

MFK Ruzomberok turn down MFK Michalovce for Giuliano Antonio Marek

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tomáš Král 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 MFK Ruzomberok this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

MFK Ruzomberok come up short against Zlate Moravce

Zlate Moravce left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

No hiding place for Daniel Köstl

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

Squad

A first senior shirt for Anton Lekaj

Every debut is a small story about the future: Anton Lekaj, 19 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.

Market

The Marko Kelemen story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Marko Kelemen signs something — a contract at MFK Ruzomberok or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Player ratings

A day to forget for David Jackuliak

Marked 5.44, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

2 Edition

The MFK Ruzomberok Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jan Hladík signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jan Hladík and MFK Ruzomberok agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at MFK Ruzomberok

Tomáš Král 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Jan Hladík

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

Player ratings

Nothing got past Martin Šulek

18 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Market

Nobody at MFK Ruzomberok has picked up the phone to Ondřej Šašinka

48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad

Words at MFK Ruzomberok training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ján Murgaš 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Jan Hladík

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

MFK Ruzomberok and Daniel Köstl are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Tomáš Král

Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief