Ratko Kacian
Croatian footballer (1917–1949)
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Ratko Kacian (Croatian pronunciation: [râtko kǎtsiaːn];[2][3] 18 January 1917 – 18 June 1949; spelled Kacijan in some sources) was a Croatian and Yugoslav footballer. He played internationally for the wartime Independent State of Croatia team from 1940 to 1943 and for the Yugoslavia national team in 1946.[4] He was also part of Yugoslavia's squad at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, without appearing in any matches.[5]
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| Date of birth | 18 January 1917[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Zadar, Austria-Hungary | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 18 June 1949 (aged 32) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| ŠK Primorac | |||||||||||||||||
| NK Osvit | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1936–1939 | HAŠK | ||||||||||||||||
| 1939–1941 | Hajduk Split | 21 | (21) | ||||||||||||||
| 1941–1945 | HAŠK | ||||||||||||||||
| 1945–1949 | Dinamo Zagreb | 53 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1940 | Banovina of Croatia | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1941–1943 | Independent State of Croatia | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1946 | Yugoslavia | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Club career
Kacian played for HAŠK in Zagreb and Hajduk Split before moving to Dinamo Zagreb after World War II.[6]
International career
He played a single match for the Banovina of Croatia team, (then a province of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) in a December 1940 friendly against Hungary. During the World War II he went on to earn nine caps for the Independent State of Croatia team, all of them in friendlies with other Axis powers nations. After the war, he continued playing professional football, and earned a single cap for Yugoslavia in May 1946, in a friendly against Czechoslovakia.[7]
Personal life
Death
He died of endocarditis in the summer of 1949.[8]
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