Matej Vuk

Attacking Midfielder (L) - NK Varazdin
12 Nov 2026
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Marked for Matej Vuk

11 Edition

The NK Varazdin Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market12 Oct 2026

Tomislav Duvnjak 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 The request is on a desk at NK Varazdin, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at NK Varazdin

Tomislav Duvnjak 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Oliver Zelenika 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.

Match10 Oct 2026

Hajduk Split take the points off NK Varazdin

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Mateo Barać is still paying for one afternoon at NK Varazdin

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Squad12 Oct 2026

NK Varazdin pick somebody else ahead of Alexander Rosso

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The NK Varazdin Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at NK Varazdin

Iuri Tavares 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.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Iuri Tavares runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match19 Sep 2026

NK Varazdin see off Lokomotiva Zagreb

Three points for NK Varazdin, 1‑0 the final word against Lokomotiva Zagreb in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad21 Sep 2026

6 new faces, and NK Varazdin are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Matej Vuk takes the honours

Marked 7.19 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, NK Varazdin had the best player on the pitch.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Alexander Rosso dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

2 Edition

The NK Varazdin Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match8 Aug 2026

NK Varazdin strike at the death to beat Hajduk Split

There were 86 minutes on the clock and Hajduk Split had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and NK Varazdin did not stop to explain themselves.

Market10 Aug 2026

Sibenik come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and NK Varazdin did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

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.

Match8 Aug 2026

NK Varazdin see off Hajduk Split

Three points for NK Varazdin, 2‑1 the final word against Hajduk Split in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Mario Marina

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mario Marina, and the manager let it.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words at NK Varazdin training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Frane Maglica 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.

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.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Luka Mamić takes the honours

Marked 7.84 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, NK Varazdin had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

1 Edition

The NK Varazdin Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Aug 2026

8 seasons of Roberto Punčec

336 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and NK Varazdin know what they have.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Oliver Zelenika signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Oliver Zelenika commits to NK Varazdin for another 2 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at NK Varazdin

Petar Bočkaj 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Lucko join the queue for Ivan Canjuga

Add another name to the list: Lucko have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ivan Canjuga. The answer from NK Varazdin has not changed — yet.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at NK Varazdin training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iuri Tavares 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.

Match1 Aug 2026

HNK Rijeka take the points off NK Varazdin

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market3 Aug 2026

NK Varazdin and Mario Marina 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

24 months and counting on Oliver Zelenika

Still no offer on the table, and Oliver Zelenika’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Market3 Aug 2026

No place for Filip Jagarčec in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Filip Jagarčec has his answer from NK Varazdin; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief