The Zadar Gazette
Market4 Dec 2028
Mato Juranovic 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 The request is on a desk at Zadar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Dec 2028
15 days out for Loukas Stamellos after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Zadar will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad4 Dec 2028
A falling-out at Zadar
Arbër Hoxha and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Damir Barisic 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.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Rafael Vidović named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Rafael Vidović is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
No hiding place for Ante Ivanovic
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ante Ivanovic, and the manager let it.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
Tomislav Horvat 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 Tomislav Horvat is on it.
Market4 Dec 2028
Still no ink between Zadar and Tonći Kukoč-Petraello
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Zadar, another week without a signature from Tonći Kukoč-Petraello.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
Duje Budimir knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Duje Budimir trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market The Tomislav Horvat talk will not go away
- Market Marko Ivan Gašparac runs his contract down
- Boardroom Zadar keep producing them