Ratko Kacian
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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(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
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
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]
Club career
[edit]Kacian played for HAŠK in Zagreb and Hajduk Split before moving to Dinamo Zagreb after World War II.[6]
International career
[edit]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
[edit]Death
[edit]He died of endocarditis in the summer of 1949.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "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 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
[edit]- Ratko Kacian at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
- Ratko Kacian at WorldFootball.net
- Ratko Kacian at National-Football-Teams.com
- Ratko Kacian at EU-Football.info
- Ratko Kacian at Olympedia
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- 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
- Yugoslav football biography stubs