Ratko Kacian (Croatian pronunciation: [râtko kǎtsiaːn];[2][3] 18 January 1917 – 18 June 1949) was a Croatian footballer. He played internationally for the Croatian 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]
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| Date of birth | (1917-01-18)18 January 1917[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Zadar, Austria-Hungary | |||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 18 June 1949(1949-06-18) (aged 32) | |||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | |||||||||||||||
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| 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) | |||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||||
| 1940 | Banovina of Croatia | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||
| 1941–1943 | Independent State of Croatia | 9 | (0) | |||||||||||||
| 1946 | Yugoslavia | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||
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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 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]
Rȁtko
Kàciān
Yugoslavia football squad – 1948 Summer Olympics – Silver medalists | ||
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