The NK Varazdin Chronicle
Squad3 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Robby McCrorie
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mario Marina signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mario Marina commits to NK Varazdin for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at NK Varazdin training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mario Marina 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Liverpool tell NK Varazdin: Rio Ngumoha is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Matej Vuk 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
NK Varazdin come up short against HNK Rijeka
HNK Rijeka left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market3 Aug 2026
Anastas Arnaudovski attracts admirers
The name of Anastas Arnaudovski has come up in conversations NK Varazdin were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Marin Juranovic left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- Transfer targets NK Varazdin try to borrow Raúl Torrente
- The dugout Tomislav Duvnjak knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The clock runs on Frane Maglica's contract