Ivan Carev

Striker - Uljanik Pula
26 Nov 2026
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11 Edition

The Uljanik Pula Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Uljanik Pula

Jurica Jurčec and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market12 Oct 2026

Uljanik Pula promote Bojan Perisic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bojan Perisic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market12 Oct 2026

Uljanik Pula promote Josip Sucic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Josip Sucic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Steve De Ridder has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Uljanik Pula know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Too much change too quickly at Uljanik Pula

20 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 dugout12 Oct 2026

Uljanik Pula keep their word to Mislav Ćutuk

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Benjamin Pajković

“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.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

Patrik Braun faces his old club

Trnje next, and one man in the Uljanik Pula dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A season on the outside for Steve De Ridder

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Uljanik Pula has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Uljanik Pula Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Josip Brundić, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.74

A mark of 7.74 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad21 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Uljanik Pula

Pierre Mounguengue and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Pierre Mounguengue gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match19 Sep 2026

Uljanik Pula and Hrvatski Dragovoljac 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.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Goran Livaja chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.

Squad21 Sep 2026

“I want to play”: Ivan Carev speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

Squad21 Sep 2026

The first one for Josip Brundić

Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Uljanik Pula have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.

Looking ahead21 Sep 2026

Ivan Carev faces his old club

Uskok next, and one man in the Uljanik Pula dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

No place in the plan for Ivan Bikić

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

1 Edition

The Uljanik Pula Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Uljanik Pula

Leonard Vuk and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match1 Aug 2026

Uljanik Pula come up short against Mladost Zdralovi

Mladost Zdralovi left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market3 Aug 2026

A stepping stone, not a home, for Leonard Vuk

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Uljanik Pula were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Squad3 Aug 2026

This league is too small for Leonard Vuk

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Uljanik Pula will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Benjamin Pajković signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Benjamin Pajković commits to Uljanik Pula for another 4 years.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Goran Livaja faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Goran Livaja after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Uljanik Pula ask about Mislav Ćutuk

A loan enquiry to Dinamo Zagreb: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

A loan move for Maroje Kostopeč is in the works

Uljanik Pula have made the call to Lokomotiva Zagreb. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad3 Aug 2026

The formation has left Ivan Carev behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Uljanik Pula will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief