The MFK Zvolen Gazette
Squad21 Dec 2026
Claude Gonçalves breaks a bone — 21 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Matej Starší, 35, rolls back the years — 8.10
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.10 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Norbert Urblík 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at MFK Zvolen
Artúr Musák 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Miroslav Stoch is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Match19 Dec 2026
Matej Starší sends MFK Zvolen past Považská Bystrica
It finished 1‑0, and it was Matej Starší’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to MFK Zvolen.
Looking ahead21 Dec 2026
The big one: Pohronie come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. MFK Zvolen will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Jan Pekarik: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Viktor Tóth 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
- Player ratings Nentaka Bangs beats them one at a time
- The dugout Filip Dlubáč knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The form table has caught Alden Šuvalija