Mladen Košćak
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| Date of birth | 16 October 1936 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Zagreb, Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | 3 August 1997 (aged 60) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Zagreb, Croatia | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1955–1963 | Dinamo Zagreb | 76 | (0) | |||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1956 | Yugoslavia | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Mladen Košćak (also spelled Koščak; 16 October 1936 – 3 August 1997) was a Croatian and Yugoslav footballer.
Club career
[edit]Born in Zagreb, Košćak joined the youth academy of local side Dinamo Zagreb, with whom he spent his entire career.[1] He started playing at full professional level in the 1955–56 season. Košćak soon established himself as a first-team regular and was instrumental in Dinamo's 1957–58 Yugoslav First League title. Although he was considered a huge talent, his career was hampered by a serious injury and he effectively stopped playing by 1960, appearing in only a single match in his last three years with the club before retiring in 1963.[1]
International career
[edit]Internationally, he was capped 4 times for the Yugoslavia national football team and was member of the national squad which won the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.[2][3] His final international was a December 1956 friendly against Indonesia.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Košćak Mladen". Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 7 July 2010.
- ^ "Mladen Koščak". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mladen Koščak". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
- ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
External links
[edit]- Mladen Koščak at WorldFootball.net
- Mladen Koščak at National-Football-Teams.com
- Mladen Koščak at kicker (in German)
- Mladen Koščak at EU-Football.info
- Mladen Koščak at Olympics.com
- Mladen Košćak at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
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