Loading AI tools
Yugoslav footballer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Franjo Šoštarić (1 August 1919 – 27 August 1975) was a Croatian footballer who competed internationally for Yugoslavia.
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Date of birth | 1 August 1919 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 27 August 1975 56) | (aged||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1940–1942 | HAŠK | ||||||||||||||||
1943–1945 | Građanski Zagreb | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1946–1952 | Partizan | 84 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1946–1951 | Yugoslavia | 18 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Born in Zagreb, he started playing with HAŠK before moving to Građanski Zagreb in 1942 where he became the substitute of Franjo Glaser for the following 3 seasons. With Građanski he won one Croatian championship and two championships of the Zagreb Subassociation.[1]
In 1945 he moved to Belgrade and joined FK Partizan where he would play until 1949 making a total of 239 appearances (84 of which in the league)[2] and win two Yugoslav championships, in 1947 and 1949, and one Yugoslav Cup, in 1947.
Šoštarić made his debut for Yugoslavia in an October 1946 Balkan Cup match against Romania and earned a total of 18 caps, scoring no goals. He was part of the Yugoslav squad at the 1948 Summer Olympics where Yugoslavia won the silver.[3][4] His final international was a June 1951 friendly match against Switzerland.[5]
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.