Matej Modric

Left Back - Segesta U20
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Matej Modric

12 Edition

The Segesta Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Filip Holjevac

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.

Squad

Matej Grahovac 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 Segesta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Segesta come up short against Sesvete

Sesvete left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Segesta count the cost of losing Matej Modric

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

The dugout

Mate Brekalo: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Dino Špehar

“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.

Player ratings

Vilim Gec runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Ivan Kapac falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Karlo Bilić

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Dugopolje in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Segesta Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Leni Peternac 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 The request is on a desk at Segesta, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

4 matches without a win for Segesta

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Segesta are no longer polite ones.

Market

Segesta promote Stipe Livaja from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stipe 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.

Market

Matej Modric steps up from the Segesta academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matej Modric 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.

Match

Segesta rescue it on 91 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 91. Sibenik had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Player ratings

Vilim Gec runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Ivan Jajalo did the work nobody counts — 6.78

9 combined actions and 6.78. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Logan Briggs

“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.

Squad

Dino Špehar falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief