Ivan Mamić

Central Defender - Hrvace
3 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

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The Hrvace Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Filip Rebic asks to leave Hrvace

“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.

Boardroom

Hrvace close the window on a squad of their own making

30 in and 24 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

Luka Ćurković gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Luka Ćurković has just signed for Hrvace, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Hrvace walk away from Domagoj Begonja

$33.0K was the most the club would pay and NK Varazdin were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Nikola Jakovljević 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.

Transfer targets

Toni Cvrlje stays at Rudes as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Hrvace will try again when the window opens; Rudes may not be selling by then.

Squad

Luka Ćurković stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Luka Ćurković and Hrvace agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Looking ahead

Hrvace take on the side everybody is chasing

Dubrava arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mateo Ivanovic

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mateo Ivanovic, and the manager let it.

In brief

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31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nikola Jakovljević runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Toni Cvrlje

Hrvace and Rudes have settled on $77.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Boardroom

Hrvace go back to the board over Domagoj Begonja

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $33.4K — a club that wants Domagoj Begonja enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Valentin Ţicu turns down Hrvace

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dinamo Bucharest keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Hrvace bid $33.0K for Domagoj Begonja

The offer went to NK Varazdin this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Hrvace rebuffed over Diego Saina

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Istra 1961 have kept their man, and Hrvace go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A row about effort at Hrvace

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikola Jakovljević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

200 appearances for Denis Cerovec

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

The dugout

Patrick Pejić 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