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67 Edition

The NK Varazdin Chronicle

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad8 Nov 2027

Mate Tkalčec damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market8 Nov 2027

Only the photograph left for Ivan Canjuga

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ivan Canjuga will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around NK Varazdin the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Mody Boune in a row with a teammate

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 Varazdin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad8 Nov 2027

A row about effort at NK Varazdin

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

Match6 Nov 2027

Cibalia take the points off NK Varazdin

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout8 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of Robby McCrorie

“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.

Loan watch8 Nov 2027

Domagoj Mamić wants to come home

“I did not go to Radnik Krizevci to sit and watch. I want to come back to NK Varazdin and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 19 matches say the rest.

The dugout8 Nov 2027

Dejan Erceg faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Dejan Erceg after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout8 Nov 2027

Mario Marina left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Mario Marina will call it something else in private.

In brief

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66 Edition

The NK Varazdin Chronicle

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad1 Nov 2027

Mate Tkalčec damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The terraces1 Nov 2027

Supporters organise against the NK Varazdin board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Match30 Oct 2027

NK Varazdin win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Lokomotiva Zagreb will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Robby McCrorie keeps NK Varazdin in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market1 Nov 2027

Rüfət Abdullazadə puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at NK Varazdin, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

Iuri Tavares 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.

The dugout1 Nov 2027

Ivan Canjuga says NK Varazdin went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

Up for the corner, and Petar Bočkaj delivers — 7.08

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Petar Bočkaj scored, was marked 7.08, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad1 Nov 2027

A falling-out at NK Varazdin

Matej Vuk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief