Tomislav Crnković (footballer)
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| Full name | Tomislav Crnković | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 17 June 1929 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kotor, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 17 January 2009 (aged 79) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Zagreb, Croatia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HAŠK | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1947–1949 | Metalac Zagreb | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1950–1961 | Dinamo Zagreb | 439 | (5) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1961–1962 | LASK | 32 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1962–1964 | Servette | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1952–1960 | Yugoslavia | 51 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1965–1966 | 1. Simmeringer SC | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Tomislav Crnković (17 June 1929 – 17 January 2009) was a Croatian and Yugoslav footballer. He was born in Kotor in present-day Montenegro.
Club
As a defender, he played for HAŠK, Metalac and Dinamo Zagreb. Abroad, he later played at Linzer ASK in Austria and Servette Geneva in Switzerland.
With his 439 caps at Dinamo, Crnković was part of their Yugoslav First League-winning club in 1954 and 1958 as well as their Yugoslav Cup – winning team in 1951 and 1960. Crnković is regarded to be one of Dinamo's greatest defenders of all time. In 2006, he was also the founder of the Croatian Football Federation.[1][2]
International
He made his debut for Yugoslavia in a June 1952 friendly match against Norway and earned a total of 51 caps, scoring no goals. He was part of the team that won silver at the 1952 Olympics,[3] and was also a member of Yugoslavia's 1954 and 1958 FIFA World Cup squads. His final international was a May 1960 European Nations' Cup qualifying match away against Portugal.[4]
