Goran Petkov

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
22 May 2027
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Marked for Goran Petkov

15 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match7 Nov 2026

Zadar tear Hrvatski Dragovoljac apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Hrvatski Dragovoljac, and it could have been more.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Mario Corluka takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match9 Nov 2026

Zadar up to position 3

20 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Mario Corluka is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.38 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Zadar

Niko Livaja 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.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Mario Corluka was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.72. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Robert Rebic 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.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Robert Rebic in the eights

A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Nothing got past Mislav Rebic

17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Ivica Lovren has become a man the manager trusts
  • Market No place for Goran Petkov in the plan
Back issues
7 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market14 Sep 2026

Goran Petkov asks to leave Zadar

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market14 Sep 2026

The Dugopolje deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Goran Petkov reports back to Zadar with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Zadar

Robert Rebic 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

Imotski take the points off Zadar

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Mato Babic to a room that had heard them before.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Dario Orsic 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.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Mario Bogdan was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Ivica Lovren unlocks it

Chances created: 10. The column nobody reads carried the whole story of the match, and his name was at the top of it.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

The one thing Mario Corluka could not do

Shots: 14, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief

6 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Dario Orsic hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zadar can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 1 in, 4 out at Zadar

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 1 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Robert Rebic pulls a muscle — 15 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Too dear: Zadar walk away from Šimun Mikolčić

$550.0K was the most the club would pay and NK Osijek were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Zadar

Robert Rebic 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.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Zadar rebuffed over Marcel Mendes-Dudziński

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Piast have kept their man, and Zadar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A step back for Duje Petkov at Zadar

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Zadar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dario Orsic 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.

Market7 Sep 2026

Dugopolje 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.

In brief