The Zadar Gazette
Match25 Aug 2027
The cup run ends for Zadar
0‑1 against Segesta, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Mihail Caimacov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Mate Modric keeps Zadar in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Zadar
Mihail Caimacov 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Alvin Arrondel 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.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
Zadar supporters have found a favourite in Alan Matturro
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Alan Matturro 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Naftan 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Bruno Rebic signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bruno Rebic and Zadar agree another 3 years.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Alan Matturro stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.55 on the card, and the Zadar support went home talking about one name.
In brief
- Match Point won or two lost for Zadar?
- Market The Mate Modric story refuses to die
- Player ratings Marco Horvat spends the afternoon fouling