Ratko Kacian
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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(s) | 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 | |||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
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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. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
- ↑ "rȁt". Hrvatski jezični portal (in srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски). Retrieved 17 March 2018.
Rȁtko
- ↑ "Kòcijān". Hrvatski jezični portal (in srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски). 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.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
- ↑ Profile – Serbian federation official website
External links
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- CS1 srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски-language sources (sh)
- 1917 births
- 1949 deaths
- Footballers from Zadar
- People from the Kingdom of Dalmatia
- Men's association football forwards
- Croatian men's footballers
- Croatia men's international footballers
- Yugoslav men's footballers
- Yugoslavia men's international footballers
- Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia
- Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia
- Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in football
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Dual internationalists (men's football)
- HAŠK players
- HNK Hajduk Split players
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb players
- Yugoslav First League players
- Deaths from endocarditis
- Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery