Franjo Šoštarić
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| Date of birth | 1 August 1919 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Zagreb, Kingdom of SCS | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 27 August 1975 (aged 56) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1940–1942 | HAŠK | ||||||||||||||||
| 1943–1945 | Građanski Zagreb | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1945–1946 | PR Croatia team | ||||||||||||||||
| 1946–1952 | Partizan Belgrade | 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 football goalkeeper who competed internationally for Yugoslavia.
Career
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 will be part of the Yugoslav squad at the 1948 Summer Olympics where Yugoslavia won the silver.[3]
Honours
Club
- Građanski Zagreb
- Croatian championship: 1943
- Partizan Belgrade
National team
- Yugoslavia
- 1948 Summer Olympics: Silver
References
- ^ 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)
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- 1919 births
- 1975 deaths
- Croatian footballers
- Yugoslav footballers
- Yugoslavia international footballers
- HAŠK players
- HŠK Građanski Zagreb players
- FK Partizan players
- Yugoslav First League players
- Olympic footballers of Yugoslavia
- Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia
- Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Zagreb
- Olympic medalists in football
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Association football goalkeepers