Goran Tadic

Central Midfielder - Zadar U20
23 Jun 2030
Sunday
Process

Marked for Goran Tadic

167 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

8 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ante Kovac breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Manu Wales 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.

Squad

Bojan Ivanovic signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bojan Ivanovic commits to Zadar for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Zadar

Kristijan Bilic 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.

Match

Zadar get the job done against Hajduk Split

A 2‑1 win over Hajduk Split, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

Zadar supporters have found a favourite in Ivan Barić

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ivan Barić 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Kristijan Bilic

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.51, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Zadar lose Goran Tadic

26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings

One of those days for Ivan Barić

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.09, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

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163 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

10 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Ante Kovac out for 50 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Zadar

Kristijan Bilic 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.

Squad

Zadar lose Goran Tadic

54 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Ivan Barić 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.

Match

Ivan Rebic sends Zadar past HNK Gorica

It finished 1‑0, and it was Ivan Rebic’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Zadar.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ivan Rebic

Marked 8.52 — 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.

The terraces

Everybody has an opinion about Ivan Rebic

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Santiago Krieger

Marked 5.70, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Ante Erceg

A mark of 5.69 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief