Franjo Šoštarić (1 August 1919 – 27 August 1975) was a Croatian footballer who competed internationally for Yugoslavia.
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Date of birth | (1919-08-01)1 August 1919 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | |||||||||||||||
Date of death | 27 August 1975(1975-08-27) (aged 56) | |||||||||||||||
Place of death | Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Winger | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1940–1942 | HAŠK | |||||||||||||||
1943–1945 | Građanski Zagreb | 5 | (3) | |||||||||||||
1945–1946 | PR Croatia team | |||||||||||||||
1946–1952 | Partizan | 84 | (28) | |||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||
1946–1951 | Yugoslavia | 40 | (12) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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*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.
He made 18 appearances for the Yugoslav national team between 1946 and 1951, and was part of the Yugoslav squad at the 1948 Summer Olympics where Yugoslavia won the silver.[3][4]
Yugoslavia football squad – 1948 Summer Olympics – Silver medalists | ||
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