Andrej Kovacevic

Left Midfielder - NK Osijek
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Marked for Andrej Kovacevic

171 Edition

The NK Osijek Courier

5 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match31 Oct 2029

Andrej Kovacevic sends NK Osijek through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Andrej Kovacevic obliged against Cibalia. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is NK Osijek.

Player ratings5 Nov 2029

A debut Andrej Kovacevic will not forget — 7.82

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.82 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Squad5 Nov 2029

Matej Grahovac keeps NK Osijek in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match5 Nov 2029

NK Osijek refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 24 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.

Squad5 Nov 2029

Samuel Akere says NK Osijek 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.

Squad5 Nov 2029

An unwelcome headline for Domagoj Bukvić

He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.

Squad5 Nov 2029

Arnel Jakupović 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 NK Osijek this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch5 Nov 2029

Mateo Bačić has seen enough of NK Varazdin

“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 NK Osijek, and 2 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.

The terraces5 Nov 2029

NK Osijek supporters have found a favourite in Andrej Kovacevic

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 17-year-old it feels ownership of. Andrej Kovacevic 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

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The NK Osijek Courier

23 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad23 Jul 2029

A fracture rules Ivan Andonov out for 23 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason NK Osijek will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad23 Jul 2029

Real improvement from Andrej Kovacevic at NK Osijek

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Andrej Kovacevic is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad23 Jul 2029

Tempers go at NK Osijek

Arnel Jakupović 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.

Market23 Jul 2029

Only the photograph left for Ante Grgić

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ante Grgić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around NK Osijek the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad23 Jul 2029

A late step up for Emin Hasić

At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Boardroom23 Jul 2029

Graduation day at NK Osijek

11 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market23 Jul 2029

One of our own: Duje Knezevic joins the NK Osijek first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Duje Knezevic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market23 Jul 2029

NK Osijek promote Damir Livaja from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Damir Livaja has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market23 Jul 2029

Ivica Grbic steps up from the NK Osijek academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivica Grbic has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief