The NK Varazdin Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
Oliver Zelenika damages knee ligaments — 127 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 127 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Mario Marina out for 160 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason NK Varazdin will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market10 Aug 2026
NK Varazdin say no — this time
The offer from Lokomotiva Zagreb for Tomislav Duvnjak was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tomislav Duvnjak stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tomislav Duvnjak and NK Varazdin agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Petar Bočkaj 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 NK Varazdin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Zadar watching Fran Ivan Marić
The interest is real enough to have reached print. NK Varazdin have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match8 Aug 2026
NK Varazdin come up short against Hajduk Split
Hajduk Split left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nobody at NK Varazdin has picked up the phone to Petar Bočkaj
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
NK Varazdin and Roberto Punčec 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Duje Čop runs at them all day
- Player ratings Tomislav Duvnjak spends the afternoon fouling