The Zadar Gazette
Market24 Jul 2028
Kristijan Bogdan 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 The request is on a desk at Zadar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Dejan Stanisic breaks a bone — 22 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Real improvement from Bautista Franco y Massa at Zadar
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Bautista Franco y Massa is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
A new deal for Stipe Lovren
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Kristijan Bilic 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 Zadar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Jul 2028
A late step up for Kristijan Bilic
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.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
Graduation day at Zadar
5 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.
Market24 Jul 2028
One of our own: Ivica Boric joins the Zadar first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivica Boric is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Jul 2028
Daniel Bogdan steps up from the Zadar academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Bogdan 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
- Market One of our own: Petar Cop joins the Zadar first team
- Boardroom Zadar are making the ground bigger
- Match Zadar share the spoils with HNK Vukovar 1991