Marked for Rok Kajzer
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match25 Jan 2027
NK Zavrc sink to position 10
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market25 Jan 2027
“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.
Market25 Jan 2027
The fee is $320.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. NK Krsko drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Andreas Paraskeva 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 terraces25 Jan 2027
NK Zavrc spend $320.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $320.0K for Rok Gorenc, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Anass Achahbar 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Match28 Dec 2026
NK Zavrc sink to position 10
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Anass Achahbar 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.
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Uneasy
Match30 Nov 2026
NK Zavrc sink to position 10
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market30 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Andreas Paraskeva 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.
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Uneasy
Match7 Sep 2026
Every point is an argument now for NK Zavrc
Position 10 and 2 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for NK Zavrc
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around NK Zavrc are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Seraskhov, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Match5 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Rudar Velenje came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at NK Zavrc would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
NK Zavrc cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“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.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑1 to NK Maribor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
13 new faces, and NK Zavrc are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market17 Aug 2026
NK Zavrc have made Rok Kajzer available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
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.