The HNK Gorica Herald
Squad31 May 2027
Dario Jakovac damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Stefan Perić breaks a bone — 72 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 72 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom31 May 2027
Continental nights are coming to HNK Gorica
Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.
Squad31 May 2027
Borna Barišić is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. HNK Gorica will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad31 May 2027
A falling-out at HNK Gorica
Jurica Pršir and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market31 May 2027
A year gone for Hadji Issa Moustapha
The loan was meant to give him football. 4 games and 0 goals later he is back at HNK Gorica no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their doing.
The dugout31 May 2027
Medin Gashi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout31 May 2027
Téo Barišić gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Téo Barišić is on it.
Market31 May 2027
The Davor Matijaš story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Davor Matijaš signs something — a contract at HNK Gorica or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- The dugout Ante Erceg keeps his manager's vote
- Boardroom The HNK Gorica board choose calm