Ivan Bogdan

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15 Nov 2026
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The Zadar Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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 terraces

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

Back issues
8 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Robert Ivanovic damages knee ligaments — 59 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 59 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.

Squad

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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Dmitriy Tsvetkov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

7 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Robert Ivanovic damages knee ligaments — 66 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 66 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.

Match

Zadar win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Cibalia will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Market

Zvonimir Bogdan puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zadar, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Marcelo Modric runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

So close: Zvonimir Bogdan’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Hrvatski Dragovoljac moved on, Zvonimir Bogdan reports back to Zadar, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad

Words at Zadar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitriy Tsvetkov 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.

The terraces

Zadar supporters have found a favourite in Dejan Pasalic

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 17-year-old it feels ownership of. Dejan Pasalic 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.

Squad

Josip Krznarić 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

Zadar get the job done against Cibalia

A 1‑0 win over Cibalia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief