The Zadar Gazette
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Goran Vlasic out for 85 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Zadar will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Domagoj Antolić 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Marko Bogdan 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Tin Srna the difference as Zadar beat Lucko
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Tin Srna. 2‑0 against Lucko, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A masterclass from Mateo Majer
Marked 8.62 — 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Zvonimir Budimir beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Tin Srna at his very best
Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Zadar.
In brief
- Squad Mateo Majer named player of the month
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ivan Perisic