Roger Tamba

Central Midfielder - Mattersburg
4 Oct 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Roger Tamba

36 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dominik Sabitzer 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 Mattersburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Roger Tamba signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roger Tamba and Mattersburg agree another 4 years.

Squad

Dominik Dragovic gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
29 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Mattersburg sink to position 8

17 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

Kévin Hoggas: 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.” Mattersburg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Álex Pérez out for 125 days

The medical room confirms 125 days on the sidelines for Álex Pérez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

17 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Every point is an argument now for Mattersburg

Position 8 and 17 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Robert Bencun asks to leave Mattersburg

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Philipp Alaba

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Mattersburg

Lukas Wedl 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

Mattersburg come up short against Altach

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

Squad

Philipp Pomer gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Costly mistake from Lukas Wedl

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Lukas Wedl knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Squad

Roger Tamba knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Roger Tamba trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Player ratings

Kévin Hoggas never got going

5.62 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

11 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Robert Bencun 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 Mattersburg can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Mattersburg

Lukas Wedl 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

Raphael Weimann the difference as Mattersburg beat Grodig

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Raphael Weimann. 3‑2 against Grodig, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Philipp Alaba runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Kévin Hoggas

“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.

Loan watch

Michael Schlager counts the days

“I watch every Mattersburg game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Sturm Graz runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief