Ratko Kacian
Croatian footballer (1917–1949)
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| Date of birth | (1917-01-18)18 January 1917[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Zadar, Austria-Hungary | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 18 June 1949(1949-06-18) (aged 32) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
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| ŠK Primorac | |||||||||||||||||
| NK Osvit | |||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1936–1939 | HAŠK | ||||||||||||||||
| 1939–1941 | Hajduk Split | 21 | (21) | ||||||||||||||
| 1941–1945 | HAŠK | ||||||||||||||||
| 1945–1949 | Dinamo Zagreb | 53 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||||||||||
Ratko Kacian (Croatian pronunciation: [râtko kǎtsiaːn];[2][3] 18 January 1917 – 18 June 1949) was a Croatian footballer. He played internationally for the Croatia national team from 1940 to 1943 and with Yugoslavia's national team in 1946.[4] He was also part of Yugoslavia's squad for the football tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.[5]
Club career
Kacian played for HAŠK, Hajduk Split before moving to Dinamo Zagreb.[6]
International career
He made his debut for the Jozo Jakopić-led Banovina of Croatia in a December 1940 friendly match against Hungary and earned a total of 10 caps scoring no goals. He played the other 9 games under the flag of the Independent State of Croatia, a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany. His only game for Yugoslavia was a May 1946 friendly away against Czechoslovakia.[7]
Personal life
Death
He died of endocarditis in the summer of 1949.[8]
References
- ^ "Ratko Kacian". Croatian Olympic Committee. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
- ^ "rȁt". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018.
Rȁtko
- ^ "Kòcijān". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018.
Kàciān
- ^ Players Appearing for Two or More Countries
- ^ "Ratko Kacian". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ "Hertha uveličava 88. obljetnicu Hajduka" [Hertha making Hajduk's 88th anniversary greater]. Vjesnik; Sport section (in Croatian). 13 February 1999. Archived from the original on 17 May 2001.
- ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
- ^ Profile – Serbian federation official website
External links
- Ratko Kacian at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
- Ratko Kacian at EU-Football.info
- Ratko Kacian at National-Football-Teams.com
- Ratko Kacian at WorldFootball.net
- Ratko Kacian at Olympedia
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Yugoslavia football squad – 1948 Summer Olympics – Silver medalists
- GK Lovrić
- GK Šoštarić
- DF Broketa
- DF Brozović
- DF Jazbinšek
- MF Atanacković
- MF Zl. Čajkovski
- MF Jovanović
- MF Mihajlović
- MF Pálfi
- MF Stanković
- FW Bobek
- FW Že. Čajkovski
- FW Cimermančić
- FW Kacian
- FW Matošić
- FW Mitić
- FW Petrović
- FW Takač
- FW Tomašević
- FW Vukas
- FW Wölfl
- Coach: Arsenijević
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