Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 16 October 1936 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||
Date of death | 3 August 1997 | (aged 60)|||||||||||||
Place of death | Zagreb, Croatia | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) | |||||||||||
1955–1963 | Dinamo Zagreb | 76 | (0) | |||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1956 | Yugoslavia | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Mladen Košćak (16 October 1936 – 3 August 1997) was a Croatian footballer.
Born in Zagreb, Košćak joined the youth academy of local side Dinamo Zagreb, with whom he spent his entire career. [1] He started playing at full professional level in the 1955–56 season. Košćak soon established himself as a first-team regular and was instrumental in Dinamo's 1957–58 Yugoslav First League title. Although he was considered a huge talent, his career was hampered by a serious injury and he effectively stopped playing by 1960, appearing in only a single match in his last three years with the club before retiring in 1963. [1]
Internationally, he was capped 4 times for the Yugoslavia national football team and was member of the national squad which won the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. [2] [3] His final international was a December 1956 friendly match away against Indonesia. [4]
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 16 October 1936 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||
Date of death | 3 August 1997 | (aged 60)|||||||||||||
Place of death | Zagreb, Croatia | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) | |||||||||||
1955–1963 | Dinamo Zagreb | 76 | (0) | |||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1956 | Yugoslavia | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Mladen Košćak (16 October 1936 – 3 August 1997) was a Croatian footballer.
Born in Zagreb, Košćak joined the youth academy of local side Dinamo Zagreb, with whom he spent his entire career. [1] He started playing at full professional level in the 1955–56 season. Košćak soon established himself as a first-team regular and was instrumental in Dinamo's 1957–58 Yugoslav First League title. Although he was considered a huge talent, his career was hampered by a serious injury and he effectively stopped playing by 1960, appearing in only a single match in his last three years with the club before retiring in 1963. [1]
Internationally, he was capped 4 times for the Yugoslavia national football team and was member of the national squad which won the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. [2] [3] His final international was a December 1956 friendly match away against Indonesia. [4]