Ivan Cop

Goalkeeper - HNK Vukovar 1991 U20
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Marked for Ivan Cop

588 Edition

The HNK Vukovar 1991 Post

2 Nov 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces2 Nov 2037

Anger at HNK Vukovar 1991 spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad2 Nov 2037

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ivan Cop

16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. HNK Vukovar 1991 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom2 Nov 2037

Damir Babic has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at HNK Vukovar 1991 can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Match28 Oct 2037

HNK Vukovar 1991 bow out of the cup

NK Osijek go through and HNK Vukovar 1991 go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Boardroom2 Nov 2037

The HNK Vukovar 1991 board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Match31 Oct 2037

No clean sheets in sight for HNK Vukovar 1991

8 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Player ratings2 Nov 2037

Age has not caught Moreno Živković yet — 8.73

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.73 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad2 Nov 2037

Dino Perisic keeps HNK Vukovar 1991 in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad2 Nov 2037

Antonio Đaković signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Antonio Đaković commits to HNK Vukovar 1991 for another 2 years.

In brief

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587 Edition

The HNK Vukovar 1991 Post

26 Oct 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Oct 2037

Dino Perisic keeps HNK Vukovar 1991 in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad26 Oct 2037

Ivan Cop damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings26 Oct 2037

Age has not caught Moreno Živković yet — 9.37

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.37 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match24 Oct 2037

No clean sheets in sight for HNK Vukovar 1991

6 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Match24 Oct 2037

Lenny Ilečić the difference as HNK Vukovar 1991 beat HNK Rijeka

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lenny Ilečić. 3‑2 against HNK Rijeka, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad26 Oct 2037

Riad Mašala is carrying HNK Vukovar 1991

6 goals and a season average of 7.41. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad26 Oct 2037

Lenny Ilečić 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.

Market26 Oct 2037

The Eniss Shabani story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Eniss Shabani signs something — a contract at HNK Vukovar 1991 or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The terraces26 Oct 2037

The spotlight tightens on Niko Garić

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief

586 Edition

The HNK Vukovar 1991 Post

19 Oct 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Oct 2037

Ivan Cop damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match17 Oct 2037

Nowhere to hide for HNK Vukovar 1991

1‑4 against Cibalia, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Player ratings19 Oct 2037

Moreno Živković, 33, rolls back the years — 8.05

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.05 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match17 Oct 2037

The wait goes on for HNK Vukovar 1991

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market19 Oct 2037

Franco Beljo is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at HNK Vukovar 1991 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match17 Oct 2037

HNK Vukovar 1991 leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad19 Oct 2037

Words at HNK Vukovar 1991 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lenny Ilečić 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.

Squad19 Oct 2037

Tempers go at HNK Vukovar 1991

Davor Bertić 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.

Squad19 Oct 2037

Defences have started doubling up on Riad Mašala

5 goals and a season average of 7.34 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

In brief