Mate Ivanovic

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The Dugopolje Post

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words at Dugopolje training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ante Utrobičić 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Dugopolje

Mijo Caktaš and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Dugopolje count the cost of losing Mate Ivanovic

22 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

Dugopolje and Marko Zubaj are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

Josip Balić has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Dugopolje will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

The Tomislav Adolf Tomić question follows Dugopolje around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tomislav Adolf Tomić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief