Boris Modric

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Marked for Boris Modric

6 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ante Ćorić

Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Boris Modric damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 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 refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 18 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.

Match

Zadar make it 7 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Zadar have 7 straight wins of it.

Market

Mato Boric 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 The request is on a desk at Zadar, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Zadar

Dario Livaja 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.

Match

Zadar keep winning on the road

3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Match

Zadar find a way past Imotski

Imotski made Zadar work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Duje Rebic in the eights

A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

  • Squad Hrvoje Vukas named player of the month
  • Squad Words at Zadar training over how hard people work
  • Market The Duje Rebic talk will not go away
Back issues
5 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Hrvoje Vukas runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Boris Modric

23 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

Nobody wants to play Zadar right now

6 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Bruno Horvat at 21 — 8.16

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bruno Horvat did not need any: 8.16, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Dario Barisic 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.

Squad

Dario Livaja 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Bruno Horvat

At 21 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.

Match

Zadar get the job done against Rudes

A 2‑0 win over Rudes, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

No hiding place for Nikola Kovacevic

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikola Kovacevic, and the manager let it.

In brief

4 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Hrvoje Vukas runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 52. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Boris Modric

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.

Match

Zadar through in the cup

A 4‑0 win over Imotski, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Squad

3 goals for Marco Perisic

The match ball belongs to Marco Perisic, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings

A debut Marcelo Horvat will not forget — 7.86

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.86 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Filippo Calabrese at 20 — 8.31

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Filippo Calabrese did not need any: 8.31, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

Zadar cannot stop winning

5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Market

Dinamo Brest come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Zadar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Josip Cop 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.

In brief