Stipe Kovac

Goalkeeper - Zadar
5 May 2027
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Marked for Stipe Kovac

34 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad22 Mar 2027

Marko Đira breaks a bone — 74 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad22 Mar 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Cop

18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zadar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match22 Mar 2027

Zadar are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 35 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Sep 2026

A fracture rules Daniel Cop out for 53 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Whatever happens, Zadar do not lose

10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Stipe Corluka

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

4 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Zvonimir Kovacevic runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 49. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match19 Aug 2026

Zadar march on in the cup

Imotski are out and Zadar go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Market24 Aug 2026

Zadar say no — this time

The offer from NK Osijek for Goran Juranovic was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

No sign of nerves from Hrvoje Petkovic at 18 — 7.91

The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Hrvoje Petkovic did not need any: 7.91, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market24 Aug 2026

Dario Ivanovic 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Zadar

Luka Šimunović 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.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

Zadar supporters have found a favourite in Hrvoje Petkovic

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Hrvoje Petkovic 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Ivica Kovacevic sends Zadar past Hrvatski Dragovoljac

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

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

One of those days for Ivica Kovacevic

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