The Zadar Gazette
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Cop
80 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.
Match25 Jan 2027
Zadar refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 35 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market25 Jan 2027
Marin Budimir 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Matej Livaja has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zadar they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Ivica Kovacevic in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zadar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Marko Đira
“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
- Squad Words at Zadar training over how hard people work
- Market The Ivan Vrsaljko story refuses to die
- The terraces The stands have heard the Ivan Vrsaljko talk too
- Market Vedran Kovacevic placed on the list