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(Redirected from Ratko Kacijan) Croatian footballer (1917–1949)

Ratko Kacian
Personal information
Date of birth (1917-01-18)18 January 1917
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
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
Men's Football
Representing  Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1948 London Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ratko Kacian (Croatian pronunciation: [râtko kǎtsiaːn]; 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. 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.

Club career

Kacian played for HAŠK, Hajduk Split before moving to Dinamo Zagreb.

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.

Personal life

Death

He died of endocarditis in the summer of 1949.

References

  1. "Ratko Kacian". Croatian Olympic Committee. 11 May 2017. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  2. "rȁt". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018. Rȁtko
  3. "Kòcijān". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018. Kàciān
  4. Players Appearing for Two or More Countries
  5. "Ratko Kacian". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  6. "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.
  7. "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  8. Profile – Serbian federation official website

External links

Yugoslavia football squad – 1948 Summer Olympics – Silver medalists
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia


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