The Zadar Gazette
Market31 Aug 2026
Andrej Modric 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 The request is on a desk at Zadar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Dejan Tadic
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Duje Petkovic in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zadar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Boris Benko among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Boris Benko on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Zadar and Rudes.
Match29 Aug 2026
Whatever happens, Zadar do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Zadar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Babacar Diallo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Babacar Diallo
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
HNK Vukovar 1991 are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Zadar will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Boris Benko in the eights
A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Marin Simunovic at his very best
- Match Boris Benko rescues a point for Zadar
- Squad Wilfried Moimbé dropped after a run of poor form