Marcel Heister

Left Back - Istra 1961
1 Apr 2027
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Process

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The Istra 1961 Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Istra 1961

6 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Istra 1961

Smail Prevljak 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.

Squad

Josip Radošević 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.

In brief

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The Istra 1961 Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Allen Obando

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Josip Radošević signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Josip Radošević commits to Istra 1961 for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Istra 1961

Smail Prevljak 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.

Market

Sibenik watching Ivan Šaranić

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Istra 1961 have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Josip Radošević 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

Istra 1961 supporters have found a favourite in Franko Kolić

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Franko Kolić 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.

Match

Istra 1961 get the job done against Dinamo Zagreb

A 1‑0 win over Dinamo Zagreb, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

The clock runs on Josip Radošević's contract

24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Market

Istra 1961 and Marcel Heister 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