Benjamin Dulčić

Right Midfielder - Hrvatski Dragovoljac
3 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Benjamin Dulčić

7 Edition

The Hrvatski Dragovoljac Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Mateo Tomić damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.

Match

The wait goes on for Hrvatski Dragovoljac

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at Hrvatski Dragovoljac

Luka Hodak was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Lucko take the points off Hrvatski Dragovoljac

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

Squad

No hiding place for Antonio Jakoliš

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

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Hrvatski Dragovoljac

8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Maximiliano Acosta

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Lucas Ozimec

Marked 5.64, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Marko Batur

Marked 5.68, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Hrvatski Dragovoljac Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Isaiah Ngbede

21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hrvatski Dragovoljac lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Hrvatski Dragovoljac are in real trouble now

Position 8, 6 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Match

5 matches without a win for Hrvatski Dragovoljac

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Hrvatski Dragovoljac are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Luka Hodak 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 Hrvatski Dragovoljac this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Iván Cartés

“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.

Squad

A month that belonged to Karlo Kovačić

The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at Hrvatski Dragovoljac who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

Match

Hrvatski Dragovoljac and Dugopolje take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Josip Brkić

Marked 5.67, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

Player ratings

Dario Sivonjić could not find anything

5.79. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief