The Hrvace Post
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Hrvace
Viktor Stojanović and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Daniel Ropar signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Ropar and Hrvace agree another 3 years.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Roko Žilić for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Hrvace will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words at Hrvace training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrik Srzentić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Filip Batarelo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Half-satisfied: Jan Lozano on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
The plan did not have a place for Niko Datković
Nobody at Hrvace is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Match25 Sep 2027
Hrvace draw a blank against Uljanik Pula
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Uljanik Pula defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Looking ahead27 Sep 2027
Jerko Bralić-Labinčić goes back to face Solin
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Jerko Bralić-Labinčić’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Hrvace needing him to play as if none of it matters.
In brief
- Player ratings Hamza Martinović was unplayable
- The dugout Ivan Omazić knocks on the manager’s door
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Marin Carev