Franjo Šoštarić

Franjo Šoštarić (1 August 1919 – 27 August 1975) was a Croatian football goalkeeper who competed internationally for Yugoslavia.

Franjo Šoštarić
Personal information
Date of birth (1919-08-01)1 August 1919
Place of birth Zagreb, Kingdom of SCS
Date of death 27 August 1975(1975-08-27) (aged 56)
Place of death Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Playing position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1940–1942 HAŠK
1943–1945 Građanski Zagreb 5 (0)
1945–1946 PR Croatia team
1946–1952 Partizan Belgrade 84 (0)
National team
1946–1951 Yugoslavia 18 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Born in Zagreb, he started playing with HAŠK before moving to Građanski Zagreb in 1942 where he became the substitute of Franjo Glaser for the following 3 seasons. With Građanski he won one Croatian championship and two championships of the Zagreb Subassociation.[1]

In 1945 he moved to Belgrade and joined FK Partizan where he would play until 1949 making a total of 239 appearances (84 of which in the league)[2] and win two Yugoslav championships, in 1947 and 1949, and one Yugoslav Cup, in 1947.

He made 18 appearances for the Yugoslav national team between 1946 and 1951, and will be part of the Yugoslav squad at the 1948 Summer Olympics where Yugoslavia won the silver.[3]

Honours

Club
Građanski Zagreb
  • Croatian championship: 1943
Partizan Belgrade

National team
Yugoslavia
gollark: WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?
gollark: The xenowyrm is a hatchling!
gollark: You just said `hatchling offers`!
gollark: I will offer... this CB chrono xenowyrm.
gollark: STOP!

References
  1. Franjo Šoštarić at Povijest Dinama (in Croatian)
  2. All-time FK Partizan players Archived 1 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine at FK Partizan official website
  3. Franjo Šoštarić at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)

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