Ratko Kacian
Personal information
Date of birth (1917-01-18)18 January 1917[1]
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];[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

  1. ^ "Ratko Kacian". Croatian Olympic Committee. 11 May 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
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