Isaac Matondo

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Koper
5 Sep 2026
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Marked for Isaac Matondo

3 Edition

The Koper Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Koper

Abdoulaye Dabo 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Brian Oddei

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Michal Kukučka

“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.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Koper Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market10 Aug 2026

As if he never left: Lan Vidmar returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Lan Vidmar is a Koper player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Jean-Pierre Longonda signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jean-Pierre Longonda commits to Koper for another 4 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Koper

Abdoulaye Dabo 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.

The terraces10 Aug 2026

Koper spend $620.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $620.0K for Lan Vidmar, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words at Koper training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean-Pierre Longonda 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Jean-Pierre Longonda

“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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Nobody at Koper has picked up the phone to Abdoulaye Dabo

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.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Isaac Matondo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Josip Iličič stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.39 on the card, and the Koper support went home talking about one name.

In brief

1 Edition

The Koper Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Aug 2026

Josip Iličič stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Josip Iličič and Koper agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Abdoulaye Dabo 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 Koper this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match1 Aug 2026

NK Celje take the points off Koper

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market3 Aug 2026

Koper and Josip Iličič 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Nobody at Koper has picked up the phone to Isaac Matondo

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

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Brown Irabor

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

In brief