Tomislav Cop

Central Midfielder - Zadar U20
15 Jan 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Tomislav Cop

68 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tomislav Cop damages knee ligaments — 19 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.

Market

Yohan González 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.

Squad

Zack Stritch 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.

Squad

Words at Zadar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Filipović 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.

Squad

Paulo Brito 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.

Match

Zadar and Cibalia cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Cibalia came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief

  • Player ratings Enzo Romero never got going
  • Player ratings Paulo Brito could not find anything
  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Matej Orsic
  • Boardroom The Zadar production line keeps running
Back issues
67 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tomislav Cop

27 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.

Match

Marko Erceg leads the rout of Lokomotiva Zagreb

3‑0, and Marko Erceg took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Zadar tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Market

Hrvoje Pjaca 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.

Squad

Raúl Baena 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

Tomislav Duvnjak 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.

Squad

Martin Benko 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