Milan Ružić
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 25 July 1955 | ||
Place of birth | Rijeka, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
Date of death | 25 January 2014 | (aged 58)||
Place of death | Rijeka, Croatia | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
NK Kraljevica | |||
Crikvenica | |||
Rijeka | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1976–1983 | Rijeka | 176 | (18) |
1983–1984 | Beringen | 22 | (2) |
1984–1988 | AA Gent | 114 | (14) |
1988–1989 | Harelbeke | 22 | (3) |
1989–1990 | Hoek | ||
Total | 374 | (115) | |
International career‡ | |||
1983 | Yugoslavia | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 May 2010 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 May 2010 |
Milan Ružić (25 July 1955 in Rijeka, Yugoslavia – 25 January 2014 in Rijeka, Croatia) was a Croatian football player. He was capped twice for Yugoslavia.[1]
Club career
He scored 31 goals in 430 appearances for hometown club Rijeka and also played in Belgium.[2]
International career
Ružić made his debut for Yugoslavia in a March 1983 friendly match away against Romania and earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals. His second and final international was a June 1983 friendly against West Germany.[3]
Death and legacy
He died in January 2014 after a long and serious illness.[4]
NK Kraljevica changed the name of their stadium Oštro to Stadium Milan Ružić - Minta in his honour in August 2015.[5]
Career statistics
Club
Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Yugoslavia | League | Yugoslav Cup | Other | Europe | Total | |||||||
NK Rijeka | 1976-77 | Yugoslav First League | 29 | 2 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 31 | 2 |
1977-78 | 29 | 0 | 4 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 33 | 1 | ||
1978-79 | 32 | 3 | 5 | 1 | – | – | 4 | 0 | 41 | 4 | ||
1979-80 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 6 | 0 | 32 | 5 | ||
1980-81 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | – | – | - | - | 28 | 4 | ||
1981-82 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | - | - | 18 | 0 | ||
1982-83 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 0 | – | – | - | - | 20 | 4 | ||
1983-84 | 1 | 0 | - | - | – | – | - | - | 1 | 0 | ||
Belgium | League | Belgian Cup | Other | Europe | Total | |||||||
K. Beringen | 1983-84 | First Division | 22 | 2 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 24 | 2 |
K.A.A. Gent | 1984-85 | 28 | 5 | 3 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 0 | 32 | 6 | |
1985-86 | 32 | 5 | 4 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 36 | 6 | ||
1986-87 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 5 | 0 | 29 | 1 | ||
1987-88 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 31 | 2 | ||
K.R.C. Harelbeke | 1988-89 | Second Division | 22 | 3 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 24 | 3 |
Netherlands | League | KNVB Cup | Other | Europe | Total | |||||||
HSV Hoek | 1989-90 | Hoofdklasse | - | - | - | - | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
Career total | 333 | 36 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 376 | 40 |
Honours
- NK Rijeka
- Yugoslav Cup: 1978, 1979
- Balkans Cup: 1978
- Individual
- Best NK Rijeka player 1978-79, 1980-81, 1982-83
- NK Rijeka best left midfielder of all time
- Scorer of the 2500 goal of the Yugoslav First League[7]
- HNK Rijeka all time XI by Novi list
References
- ^ LZMK
- ^ Preminuo Milan Ružić, bivši legendarni veznjak Rijeke - Sportnet (in Croatian)
- ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
- ^ PREMINUO MILAN MINTA RUŽIĆ - Croatian Football Federation (in Croatian)
- ^ SportCom.hr Stjepan Lončarić: NK Kraljevica u kolovozu organizira turnir u spomen na Milana Mintu Ružića, 15. srpnja 2015. (pristupljeno 1. svibnja 2016.)
- ^ "Milan Ružić statistics". national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ^ Novi list Orlando Rivetti: In memoriam. Minta, otrgnuti cvijet dobrote, 26. siječnja 2014. (pristupljeno 1. svibnja 2016.)
External links
- Milan Ružić at WorldFootball.net
- Milan Ružić at National-Football-Teams.com
- Milan Ružić at EU-Football.info
- Profile at Serbian federation official site
Categories:
- 1955 births
- 2014 deaths
- Footballers from Rijeka
- Men's association football midfielders
- Yugoslav men's footballers
- Yugoslavia men's international footballers
- HNK Rijeka players
- K. Beringen F.C. players
- K.A.A. Gent players
- K.R.C. Zuid-West-Vlaanderen players
- HSV Hoek players
- Yugoslav First League players
- Belgian Pro League players
- Challenger Pro League players
- Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
- Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
- Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
- Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Croatian football midfielder stubs