Zadar winger Hrvoje Custic has died after hitting his head on a concrete wall during a Croatian championship match last weekend.
Custic, 24, was going for the ball during Saturday’s 1-0 home win over Cibalia Vinkovci when he slid off the pitch and hit the wall which lay beyond the touchline.
He underwent immediate surgery but died five days later at a Zadar hospital.
“Custic died of a serious brain injury,” a doctor at the Zadar hospital told reporters.