Božo Broketa (24 December 1922 – 25 July 1985) was a Yugoslav football player.
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Full name | Božo Broketa | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1922-12-24)24 December 1922 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Dubrovnik, Kingdom of SCS | |||||||||||||||
Date of death | 25 July 1985(1985-07-25) (aged 62)[1] | |||||||||||||||
Place of death | Dubrovnik, SFR Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
GOŠK Dubrovnik | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1942–1945 | Uskok Zagreb | |||||||||||||||
1946–1956 | Hajduk Split | 202 | (26) | |||||||||||||
1956–1957 | GOŠK Dubrovnik | |||||||||||||||
1957–1958 | Limburgia | |||||||||||||||
1958–1959 | Ajax | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||
1947–1948 | Yugoslavia | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
He spent most of his career with Hajduk Split. He played 4 league matches for Dutch giants Ajax,[2] when he already was 36 years of age.
A football academy in Dubrovnik is named after him.[3]
He made his debut for Yugoslavia in a May 1947 friendly match away against Czechoslovakia and earned a total of 3 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a June 1948 Balkan Cup match against Albania.[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]
Yugoslavia football squad – 1948 Summer Olympics – Silver medalists | ||
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Yugoslavia squad – 1950 FIFA World Cup | ||
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