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Croatian footballer (1917–1949) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ratko Kacian (Croatian pronunciation: [râtko kǎtsiaːn];[2][3] 18 January 1917 – 18 June 1949) was a Croatian footballer. He played internationally for the Croatia national team from 1940 to 1943 and with Yugoslavia's national team in 1946.[4] He was also part of Yugoslavia's squad for the football tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.[5]
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | [1] | 18 January 1917||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Zadar, Austria-Hungary | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 18 June 1949 32) | (aged||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
ŠK Primorac | |||||||||||||||||
NK Osvit | |||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1936–1939 | HAŠK | ||||||||||||||||
1939–1941 | Hajduk Split | 21 | (21) | ||||||||||||||
1941–1945 | HAŠK | ||||||||||||||||
1945–1949 | Dinamo Zagreb | 53 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1940 | Banovina of Croatia | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1941–1943 | Independent State of Croatia | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1946 | Yugoslavia | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Kacian played for HAŠK, Hajduk Split before moving to Dinamo Zagreb.[6]
He made his debut for the Jozo Jakopić-led Banovina of Croatia in a December 1940 friendly match against Hungary and earned a total of 10 caps scoring no goals. He played the other 9 games under the flag of the Independent State of Croatia, a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany. His only game for Yugoslavia was a May 1946 friendly away against Czechoslovakia.[7]
He died of endocarditis in the summer of 1949.[8]
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