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Franjo Šoštarić

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Franjo Šoštarić
Personal information
Date of birth (1919-08-01)1 August 1919
Place of birth Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Date of death 27 August 1975(1975-08-27) (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
Men's Football
Representing  Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1948 London Team
*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

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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

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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

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Club

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Građanski Zagreb
  • Croatian championship: 1943
Partizan

National team

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Yugoslavia

References

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  1. ^ Franjo Šoštarić at Povijest Dinama (in Croatian)
  2. ^ All-time FK Partizan players Archived 1 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine at FK Partizan official website
  3. ^ Franjo Šoštarić at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
  4. ^ "Franjo Šoštarić". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
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