00:00Two nations with very different footballing identities but identical June momentum collide
00:05in Košica as Slovakia and Montenegro wrap up their 2025-26 campaigns. Both sides opened the
00:12month with victories, and both now look to sharpen their edges ahead of Nations League battles later
00:17this year. Slovakia enter this friendly in a period of transition. After four years at the
00:24helm, Francesco Calzona has stepped aside, paving the way for Vladimir Weiss to begin his second
00:30spell in charge. His task is clear, guide Slovakia through a Nations League group featuring Moldova,
00:37Kazakhstan and the Faroe Islands, a group from which promotion is not just the target,
00:41but the expectation. Their World Cup dream ended painfully in March, falling to Kosovo in the
00:47playoff semi-finals. That defeat remained Slovakia's only home loss in the last two years,
00:54a reminder of how strong they typically are on their own turf. Monday's 2-1 win over Malta,
01:00sealed by debutant Roland Galsic deep into stoppage time, showed both promise and fragility. With this
01:06being their final outing of the season, Weiss may again turn to fresh faces as he shapes the next
01:12chapter of Slovak football. Montenegro arrived with their own sense of renewal. The late appointment
01:18of Mirko Vucinic wasn't enough to rescue their World Cup qualifying campaign. They finished fourth
01:24in Group L, but the former striker has injected energy and belief into the squad. Their Nations League
01:30group of Armenia, Latvia and Cyprus offers a realistic path toward promotion to League B,
01:35and this friendly serves as another important rehearsal. The Balkan side have quietly built confidence
01:41on the road, winning their last two away matches after previously losing seven straight.
01:47Ranked 81st in the world, 33 places below Slovakia, Montenegro know they enter as underdogs,
01:54but history suggests a tight contest. This will be only the third meeting between the nations,
02:00with the last...
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