Daniel Cop

Central Midfielder - Zadar
4 Apr 2027
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Marked for Daniel Cop

13 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match24 Oct 2026

Still nobody has beaten Zadar

The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Daniel Cop breaks a bone — 24 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad26 Oct 2026

At 18, Stipe Corluka is already the best thing here

An average of 7.01 in a first team he is several years too young for. Zadar have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Daniel Cop

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Zadar

Ivica Kovacevic 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 terraces26 Oct 2026

The crowd has taken to Hrvoje Petkovic

At 18 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.

Match24 Oct 2026

Nobody wins at Zadar

8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match24 Oct 2026

Zadar get the job done against Hrvatski Dragovoljac

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

Squad26 Oct 2026

Mate Sutalo out for 56 days

The medical room confirms 56 days on the sidelines for Mate Sutalo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad5 Oct 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Domagoj Lovren

32 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.

Match5 Oct 2026

Zadar up to position 1

22 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Daniel Cop breaks a bone — 45 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Both of them Ivan Vrsaljko's — 8.77

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.77, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match3 Oct 2026

11 unbeaten for Zadar

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Zadar did not have in the autumn.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Daniel Cop

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Vedran Kovacevic says Zadar went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

No sign of nerves from Stipe Corluka at 18 — 7.71

The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Stipe Corluka did not need any: 7.71, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Ivan Cvijanović 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Kristijan Rebic

Successful dribbles: 57. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market10 Aug 2026

Zadar turn down Lokomotiva Zagreb for Ivan Bilic

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

No sign of nerves from Stipe Corluka at 18 — 7.82

The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Stipe Corluka did not need any: 7.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market10 Aug 2026

Eyes on Kristijan Rebic again

The phone has started ringing about Kristijan Rebic again, and this time the name on the line is HNK Gorica. Zadar are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market10 Aug 2026

Marko Petkovic 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Kristijan Rebic signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kristijan Rebic commits to Zadar for another 4 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Goran Juranovic 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Petar Budimir 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 terraces10 Aug 2026

Zadar supporters have found a favourite in Daniel Cop

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

In brief