Mladen Košćak
Croatian footballer
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Mladen Košćak (also spelled Koščak; 16 October 1936 – 3 August 1997) was a Croatian and Yugoslav footballer.
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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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 | 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 | ||||||||||||||
Club career
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
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]
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