Mario Šitum

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22 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Mario Šitum

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The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Lokomotiva Zagreb win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Slaven Belupo will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings

A brace, and Oliver Heiðarsson takes the afternoon — 8.49

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Oliver Heiðarsson provided it, and the 8.49 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Lokomotiva Zagreb say no — this time

The offer from Dinamo Zagreb for Cheikh Mbacke Diop 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.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Aleksandar Trajkovski yet — 8.03

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.03 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

Lokomotiva Zagreb find a way past Slaven Belupo

Slaven Belupo made Lokomotiva Zagreb work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Words at Lokomotiva Zagreb training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Sigali 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.

The terraces

Lokomotiva Zagreb supporters have found a favourite in Aleks Stojaković

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Aleks Stojaković has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

Mario Šitum gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Aleks Stojaković

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jakov-Anton Vasilj

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Ibrahim Sabra at 20 — 7.62

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ibrahim Sabra did not need any: 7.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Mario Šitum has been here 8 seasons

372 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Marko Vešović signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marko Vešović commits to Lokomotiva Zagreb for another 2 years.

Squad

Marko Vešović 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 Lokomotiva Zagreb this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Leonardo Sigali 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.

The terraces

Lokomotiva Zagreb supporters have found a favourite in Ibrahim Sabra

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Ibrahim Sabra has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market

Dimitrije Kamenović told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Dimitrije Kamenović has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Lokomotiva Zagreb.

Market

Lokomotiva Zagreb and Aleksandar Trajkovski 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