The Istra 1961 Post
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
A brace, and Marko Aščić takes the afternoon — 8.69
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marko Aščić provided it, and the 8.69 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Istra 1961
Smail Prevljak 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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Marcos Pacheco gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Marcos Pacheco has just signed for Istra 1961, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Stjepan Lončar 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.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Silvio Goričan runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match2 Sep 2028
Istra 1961 find a way past Dugopolje
Dugopolje made Istra 1961 work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad4 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Matías Rapetti
“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.
Market4 Sep 2028
The Filip Taraba talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Istra 1961 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market4 Sep 2028
Istra 1961 pick up Marcos Pacheco for nothing
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Marcos Pacheco arrives at Istra 1961 with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
In brief
- Market Istra 1961 shop where it costs nothing
- Market Istra 1961 pick up Ibo Djebate for nothing
- Boardroom The Istra 1961 production line keeps running