The Zadar Gazette
Squad19 Oct 2026
Robert Ivanovic damages knee ligaments — 29 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 29 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Mateo Pasalic keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Zadar may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Zadar
Marcelo Modric 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Luka Petkovic
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Dmitriy Tsvetkov 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 terraces19 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Zvonimir Bogdan
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Match Ivan Bogdan the difference as Zadar beat Sibenik
- Player ratings Ivan Bogdan was the difference for Zadar