Damir Pjaca

Left Wingback - Hrvatski Dragovoljac
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Damir Pjaca

5 Edition

The Hrvatski Dragovoljac Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Antonio Jakoliš scores twice — 8.31

Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

David Večerić asks to leave Hrvatski Dragovoljac

“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.

Player ratings

Matías Contrera, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.60

A mark of 8.60 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match

Hrvatski Dragovoljac leaking at the back

6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad

Matías Contrera 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 Hrvatski Dragovoljac this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Hrvatski Dragovoljac and Sesvete in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Marko Batur

“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.

Match

Hrvatski Dragovoljac and Sesvete take a point apiece

It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Market

Hrvatski Dragovoljac buy the years ahead of Damir Pjaca

He is 17, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Kristijan Kasalo 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Boris Vrsaljko

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Zadar say no — this time

The offer from Znamya Truda for Sime Bilic was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Zadar

Alexandre Coeff 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 leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Market

Zadar sell Damir Pjaca for $24.0K

Damir Pjaca has left for Hrvatski Dragovoljac in a $24.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Armando Graziani 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

The afternoon belonged to Milan Cop

A mark of 7.92, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Zadar

12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief