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The game never felt settled,not from the first whistle. Away at Podgrmec Sanski Most, the pitch felt tighter, the air heavier, every touch carrying more weight than it should. Velež Mostar started well enough, moving the ball, finding spaces, but not...
The corridor outside the dressing room was quieter than it should have been. Muted, like the noise from the stadium hadn’t quite reached this far yet. Scott stood still for a moment, hands in his pockets, eyes fixed on nothing in particular.&nb...
In the dressing room, the feeling sat somewhere in between. Not defeat but not relief. Scott stood in front of them, letting it settle ‘well, we didn't lose’ he said. A few heads lifted, acknowledging ‘but we didn’t win either’ That landed harder ‘ga...
The response came quicker than Scott would have liked. Too quick and too easy. Thirty four minutes in, Široki Brijeg won a corner down the right. Nothing unusual. Nothing dangerous on the surface, and they’d hardly threatened up until then anyway.&nb...
Velež Mostar starting line up:GK - Abdihodžić. RB - Lugonja. LB - Danilovic. CB - Malania. CB - Leovac. RM - Reinert (9 assists, 3 goals this season). LM - Koné (11 assists, 4 goals this season).CM - Kobilica (captain)....
The stadium filled early. Not gradually. Not quietly. By the time the players emerged from the tunnel, it was already alive, noise rolling down from every stand, thick, constant, expectant. Scarves raised. Voices layered on top of each other. N...
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The final whistle came with certainty this time. No tension and with no doubt. Velež Mostar had done their job, 4–1 away at Goražde. Professional. Ruthless when it mattered. A response that carried weight. But the real shift came seconds later,...
The game had drifted into that dangerous place. Three goals up. Control established, but the tempo dipped just enough for complacency to start whispering.Scott saw it before it happened. A fraction slower to second balls, a pass taken with one touch too m...
Away at FK Goražde, there was no slow build. No hesitation, no feeling out period and no taking it steady. From the first whistle Velež Mostar played like a team that had been insulted, and had taken it personally. Six minutes in, the response arrive...
The next step was supposed to be forward.Instead, it stumbled, slipped and sent them backwards. Away at Metalleghe, Velež Mostar never quite found their rhythm. Not in the way they had in recent weeks. Not with the same control, the same certainty.&n...
Momentum, once it came back, didn’t arrive with noise, it arrived with results. A hard fought 2–1 away win at Sloboda Mrkonjić Grad, the kind of game that tested patience more than quality. Tight spaces, heavy legs, moments where it could have slipped. Bu...
The next game carried a different kind of tension. Not just about winning, but about keeping up. At home against NK Gradina, Velež Mostar knew exactly what was at stake before a ball had even been kicked. The table had tightened to the point where every g...
The third meeting carried a different weight. Same opponent, same stadium in the capital. But this time, everything felt tighter. The title race had stripped the game down to its essentials. Points. Margins. Nerve. As Velež Mostar walked out at FK Že...
April didn’t end with a roar, instead it ended with clenched control. After the turbulence of the cup exit, FK Velež Mostar found something colder, something more calculated. Two final games to round out the month. Two margins. Two statements. F...
If there had been any doubt in Scott’s mind about the response, it didn’t last long. Back at home, under a cold but clear Mostar sky, Velež Mostar came out like a team with something to prove against FK Igman Konjic. Not just to the league, but to th...
The second leg didn’t begin with noise. No anger spilling over, no shouting from Peter or Scott from the touchline in the opening minutes. Just a quiet, controlled focus. After the chaos of the first leg and the collapse against Velika Obarska, Velež...
The warning signs had been there. Small ones at first, slight lapses, moments where control slipped just enough to let opponents breathe, nothing that wasn’t manageable game to game. But the cup quarter-final brought everything into sharp, ugly focus...
The winter break ended quietly. No fireworks, no grand declarations, just another matchday arriving at the stadium in Mostar. FK Velež Mostar returned to action at home against NK Travnik, the kind of fixture that looked straightforward on pape...
The winter break is supposed to be quiet. Rest, relaxation and reviewing the first half of the season, mixed in with a few contract renewals. One or two departures might go ahead, some tactical work in the office while the frost clung stubbornly to the gr...
The formal offer arrived the following morning. NK Čelik Zenica officially offering €20,000 for Edin Bebanić. Scott sat with the email open for a while before calling Bebanić into the office. The captain knocked once and stepped inside, st...
The winter break didn’t just bring rest, it brought decisions. One of the first pieces of business Scott and the club moved on quickly was securing the future of their young forward Maid Adnan. The striker had shown flashes throughout the first half...
Winter transfers 2022 The winter transfer window kicks off with the Erling Haaland sweepstakes. Manchester United and Bayern Munich are both reportedly circling the Inter Milan striker, who only joined the Italians from Red Bull Salzburg back i...
The table didn’t lie, but it didn’t tell the whole story either. At the winter break, Velež Mostar sat on top of the league with 38 points, a narrow one point lead over NK Široki Brijeg. On paper it looked tidy, controlled even, the kind of position...
The match itself began in an oddly cautious rhythm. Despite FK Velež Mostar dominating possession early, NK Podgrmeč Sanski Most looked determined to make the afternoon uncomfortable. Their shape was compact, their midfield crowded, and every time Ve...
The milestone crept up on Scott quietly, two hundred matches as a manager. It wasn’t something he had been counting or even paying attention to when he made his own notes after every game, but when the club secretary mentioned it during the week he...
The cup draw itself felt kind. Another team in the same division as Velež this time around, another chance to keep momentum alive. When Velež Mostar were paired with FK Velika Obarska in the quarter final, it had been received quietly inside the dres...
October arrived quietly in Mostar, but the calm didn’t last long. The first blow came on a grey morning at training. Belmin Kobilica had been jogging during a light possession drill when he suddenly stopped. No collision, no tackle, just a sharp step and...
The press room in Mostar was small, crowded, and still buzzing with the noise from the cup match the day before. Scott could still hear the echo of the travelling supporters outside the stadium corridors as he took his seat at the front table. The smell o...
From the opening minute FK Sloga Simin Han made their intentions clear. Direct football, long balls, second balls route one all the way. The home crowd sensed the opportunity even before a ball had been kicked. Scott stood with his hands in his...
The press room beneath the eastern most stand at Vrapčići felt different tonight. The hum that had followed seven straight victories had disappeared. Instead there was a low murmur between journalists, chairs scraping on the tiled floor as they sett...
By the time the game drifted into stoppage time, it had become stretched. Željezničar were committing numbers forward now, centre halves stepping up into midfield, full backs almost playing as wingers. Every throw in was hurried and hurled forward, every...
The whistle for half time came at just the right moment. Željezničar had begun to push in the final five minutes, more direct and more urgent than they had but without clarity. Velež walked off to a wall of noise, 2–0 up, having controlled both tempo and...
By the time the clock ticked toward thirtynine minutes, the pattern was clear. Željezničar weren’t dictating anything, they were reacting. Velež moved the ball with patience now, almost daring Sarajevo to step out. Reinert drifted inside, dragging a...
Željezničar’s early press began to lose its bite around the twelve minute mark. Not because they stopped trying, but because Velež stopped reacting to it. Plantak recycled calmly, Bebanic and Kobilica dropped between the lines. Reinert drifted intell...
GK - Abdihodžić. RB - Lugonja. LB - Dijakovic. CB - Malania. CB - Plantak. RM - Reinert (3 assists in previous game v.s Igman). LM - Hedilazio.CM - Kobilica. CM - Bebanic. CF - Adnan. CF - Goncerz (3 goal...
The week leading into the game had an edge that Scott didn’t acknowledge publicly. Five wins from five had lifted Velež Mostar to the top of the table. The mood around the training ground was confident without being loud. The work felt sharp,...
The final ten minutes felt longer than the previous eighty. Budućnost threw men forward now, not recklessly but with nothing left to conserve. Long diagonals, first to the second balls. Late runners from midfield and from every clearance Velež made there...
The equaliser didn’t trigger panic, it triggered scrutiny. For ten minutes after Ignjić’s goal Budućnost were by far the better side. Not in terms of clear cut chances or putting Velež under pressure, but sharper. First to second balls. Quicker...
The warning came before the goal, Scott felt it in the two minutes after Ilíć scored. Velež had dropped five yards deeper without being told. Not dramatically and certainly not obviously. Just enough to protect what they had reclaimed, the few passes...
The equaliser didn’t turn the game chaotic. It became tense. Velež had the ball again within seconds, almost as if trying to erase the mistake through sheer possession. But something subtle had shifted. The passes were still accurate, the movem...
From the first whistle it was clear this would not look like last week. FK Budućnost Banovići came to frustrate. Two tight banks of four. Lines barely ten yards apart. One of their strikers dropped so deep he was almost another midfielder. Every Velež tou...
The week felt shorter than it was. A 4–0 opening day win has a strange effect, it lifts everything, but it also sharpens expectation. Training had an edge to it now. Smiles, yes. But also competition. The tempo was half a yard quicker in every drill...
The own goal changed the temperature of the game, they could all feel it. The passes that had been tight and rushed now moved with rhythm. The distances between the lines shortened. Voices grew louder, clearer. Instead of reacting, Velež began antici...
Velež Mostar starting eleven:GK - Abdihodžić. RB - Lugonja. LB - Danilovic. CB - Malania. CB - Leovac. RM - Koné. LM - Hedilazio. CM - Kobilica. CM - Bebanic. CF - Goncerz. CF - Ilic. The...
Stadiums are never quieter than they are on the morning before a season began. Scott stood near the halfway line, hands in his coat pockets, looking up at the empty stands of the Vrapčići. No noise. No expectation in the air yet. Just concrete...
It was Marcin who found him. Not through an agent’s glossy email or a desperate recommendation, but buried in footage from a regional league match, the kind watched at one in the morning with tired eyes and cold coffee. ‘Stop it there’ Marcin said as...
The offers landed almost back-to-back, like buses you’re not waiting for. Győri came first. Hungary. Seventyfive thousand. Clean, sensible, the kind of bid that suggested they’d watched Radchenko just enough to convince themselves t...
The numbers didn’t lie, even if they tried to dress themselves up nicely on paper. Chances created. Crosses delivered. Work done in the final third. Goals, though? They were a rumour. A hope. Nothing you could hang your coat on. Scott said it o...
The flip side of momentum came quickly. For every name pencilled in and ready to get to work another had to be taken off the list. Squad building was never just about arrivals, it was also about knowing when to let go. The call about Adnan Alihodžić...