Hrvoje Tadic

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8 May 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Hrvoje Tadic

29 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

At 18, Robert Colak 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.

Squad

Damir Erceg 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.

Squad

Words at Zadar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alvin Arrondel 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.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Milan Bogdan

16 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 up to position 2

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

Squad

Zvonimir Cop: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Zadar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

The season belongs to Kristijan Majer

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Zadar have had the benefit of it.

Market

Hrvoje Tadic 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 The request is on a desk at Zadar, and it is not being withdrawn.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

Damir Erceg 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

16 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Milan Bogdan damages knee ligaments — 70 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 70 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.

Squad

Hrvoje Tadic 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

Tempers go at Zadar

Damir Erceg 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Petar Petkovic

Marked 9.57 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match

Robert Boric sends Zadar past Cibalia

It finished 2‑1, and it was Robert Boric’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Zadar.

Squad

No hiding place for Alvin Arrondel

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

Loan watch

Nikola Knezevic has seen enough of Imotski

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Zadar, and 2 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Damir Barisic

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

The Petar Petkovic story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Petar Petkovic signs something — a contract at Zadar or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

7 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Josip Corluka

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The terraces

Zadar supporters have found a favourite in Josip Corluka

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

Squad

Daniel Kramaric gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Bruno Erceg shuts the door

Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Tempers go at Zadar

Damir Barisic 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.

Squad

Zadar pick somebody else ahead of Alvin Arrondel

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Match

Zadar draw a blank against Cibalia

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Cibalia defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Petar Petkovic

7 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Market

Robert Boric linked with a move away

The name of Robert Boric keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Zadar say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief