The Bjelovar Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Ivan Horvat would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ivan Horvat is living that version at Bjelovar, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Marino Skelin turns down Bjelovar
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Hajduk Split keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Market10 Aug 2026
Antonio Perić comes home
The shirt still fits. Antonio Perić is back at Bjelovar, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Bjelovar
Zoran Lesjak and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Antonio Pejanović
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Bjelovar will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Bjelovar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Noel Bilić 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bjelovar promote Marcelo Bogdan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcelo Bogdan 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bjelovar promote Marcelo Perisic from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcelo Perisic 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Vedran Majer joins the Bjelovar first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vedran Majer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout Božidar Radošević gets it from the manager
- Match Uskok take the points off Bjelovar
- The dugout Ivan Perisic answers for it