Alen Cimerman

Central Midfielder - NK Zavrc
23 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Alen Cimerman

12 Edition

The NK Zavrc Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Vsevolod Yermakov out for 59 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason NK Zavrc will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Mateo Cardona 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 NK Zavrc can pretend not to have heard.

The terraces

Fear has settled over NK Zavrc

Position 8, 11 points, and a crowd that arrives already braced. Relegation seasons are lost in exactly this atmosphere, and everybody who has lived through one recognises it immediately.

Squad

Alen Cimerman: 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.” NK Zavrc have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Real improvement from Nejc Viher at NK Zavrc

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nejc Viher is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Ivan Cimerman stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivan Cimerman and NK Zavrc agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

NK Zavrc come up short against NK Maribor

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

Player ratings

Ivan Cimerman never got going

5.27 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.

Player ratings

Kristjan Laščak never got going

5.47 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

Back issues
2 Edition

The NK Zavrc Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Cándido Ramírez 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 NK Zavrc this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for NK Zavrc against NK Celje

1‑3 to NK Celje, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Mateo Cardona falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Marcel Koren is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at NK Zavrc has been clear about where Marcel Koren stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Cándido Ramírez

“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.

Market

Still no ink between NK Zavrc and Vsevolod Yermakov

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at NK Zavrc, another week without a signature from Vsevolod Yermakov.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at NK Zavrc

10 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.

Market

Experience through the door at NK Zavrc

Desley Ubbink arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Market

NK Zavrc bring in an old head

Cándido Ramírez is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief

1 Edition

The NK Zavrc Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for NK Zavrc

Beaten 0‑3 by Olimpija Ljubljana, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

Tadej Trajkovski keeps NK Zavrc in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 12 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Squad

Luka Šalamun signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luka Šalamun and NK Zavrc agree another 3 years.

Market

Luka Šalamun told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Luka Šalamun has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at NK Zavrc.

Squad

Luka Šalamun 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the NK Zavrc dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market

NK Zavrc and Alen Cimerman 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

Marcel Koren never got going

5.66 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