Franjo Šoštarić
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| Date of birth | 1 August 1919 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 27 August 1975 (aged 56) | ||||||||||||||||
| 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
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Franjo Šoštarić (1 August 1919 – 27 August 1975) was a Croatian footballer who competed internationally for Yugoslavia.
Club career
[edit]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.
International career
[edit]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]
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]- Građanski Zagreb
- Croatian championship: 1943
- Partizan
National team
[edit]- Yugoslavia
- 1948 Summer Olympics: Silver
References
[edit]- ^ Franjo Šoštarić at Povijest Dinama (in Croatian)
- ^ All-time FK Partizan players Archived 1 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine at FK Partizan official website
- ^ Franjo Šoštarić at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
- ^ "Franjo Šoštarić". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
External links
[edit]- Franjo Šoštarić at WorldFootball.net
- Franjo Šoštarić at National-Football-Teams.com
- Franjo Šoštarić at EU-Football.info
- Franjo Šoštarić at Olympedia
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