Ante Žanetić

Ante Žanetić
Personal information
Full name	Ante Žanetić Zalante
Date of birth	18 November 1936
Place of birth	Blato, Korčula, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death	18 December 2014 (aged 78)
Place of death	Wollongong, Australia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1946–1953	NK BŠK Zmaj Blato
Senior career*
Years	Team
1953–1954	GOŠK Dubrovnik
1954–1961	Hajduk Split
1961–1964	Club Brugge K.V.
1964–1966	Racing White
International career
1956	PR Croatia
1959–1960	Yugoslavia
Medal record
Men's Football
Representing Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
European Championship
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ante Žanetić (18 November 1936 – 18 December 2014) was a Croatian professional footballer.

During his club career he played for NK Hajduk Split, Club Brugge K.V. and Racing White. He earned 15 caps for the Yugoslavia national football team, and participated in the 1960 European Nations' Cup and on the Yugoslavian team that won the 1960 Olympics.^[1] He also played a friendly match for the PR Croatian national team against Indonesia.

Žanetić later decided to leave Yugoslavia in order to play football in west Europe.^[2] He abandoned the Hajduk Split squad while the team was in Germany in 1961 and moved to Belgium where he played for Club Brugge K.V. and Racing White.^[3] He subsequently emigrated to Australia. He died there in 2014.^[4]

References

^ "Ante Žanetić". Olympedia. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
^ "Ante Žanetić", Nogometni leksikon, Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute. Zagreb, 2004.
^ "Ante Žanetić: I write this for all football lovers, but especially for Hajduk's young Torcida". Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 2 July 2008.
^ "Umro Ante Žanetić - Jutarnji.hr". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2014.

External links

For infobox club stats: "Žanetić Ante". reprezentacija.rs. 28 January 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2021.

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[1] "Ante Žanetić". Olympedia. Retrieved 10 December 2021.

[2] "Ante Žanetić", Nogometni leksikon, Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute. Zagreb, 2004.

[AMAC-3] "Ante Žanetić: I write this for all football lovers, but especially for Hajduk's young Torcida". Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 2 July 2008.

[4] "Umro Ante Žanetić - Jutarnji.hr". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2014.

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