Ivano Kovač

Central Midfielder - Dinamo Zagreb U18
6 Jul 2027
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Marked for Ivano Kovač

48 Edition

The Dinamo Zagreb Gazette

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market28 Jun 2027

Smail Prevljak has said yes to Croatia Zmijavci

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Dinamo Zagreb have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market28 Jun 2027

Bruno Goda asks to leave Dinamo Zagreb

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market28 Jun 2027

Dinamo Zagreb turn down Paralimni for Moreno Živković

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

Dinamo Zagreb rebuffed over Jurica Pršir

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. HNK Gorica have kept their man, and Dinamo Zagreb go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout28 Jun 2027

The manager makes an example of Moris Valinčić

“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.

Market28 Jun 2027

Ivano Kovač comes back from a loan that worked

25 appearances and 1 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Too much change too quickly at Dinamo Zagreb

6 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.

The dugout28 Jun 2027

Bruno Goda has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Dinamo Zagreb will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Kirill Kravtsov remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Dinamo Zagreb would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The Kustosija Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match28 Nov 2026

Tomislav Krizmanić leads the rout of Solin

3‑0, and Tomislav Krizmanić took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Kustosija tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Tomislav Krizmanić scores twice — 8.52

Two goals and a mark of 8.52 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Ivano Kovač, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.00

A mark of 8.00 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Kustosija

Tijan Vasić 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.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Noel Đurković beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Boardroom30 Nov 2026

153% of the income goes out in wages at Kustosija

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

The terraces30 Nov 2026

Kustosija supporters have found a favourite in Filip Markanović

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Filip Markanović has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

A masterclass from Umaro Embaló

Marked 8.41 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match30 Nov 2026

Halfway: Kustosija sit in position 4

22 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.

In brief