Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Zvonko Bego | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 19 December 1940 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Split, Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 13 August 2018 | (aged 77)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Krapinske Toplice, Croatia | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1957–1967 | Hajduk Split | 169 | (35) | ||||||||||||||
1967 | Bayern Munich | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1967–1968 | FC Twente | 6 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1968–1969 | Bayer Leverkusen | 17 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1969–1971 | Austria Salzburg | ||||||||||||||||
1971–1972 | Junak Sinj | ||||||||||||||||
1972–1973 | Uskok | ||||||||||||||||
Total | 182 | (37) | |||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1961 | Yugoslavia | 6 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Zvonko Bego (19 December 1940 – 13 August 2018) was a Yugoslav footballer.[1] He spent most of his career with Croatian side Hajduk Split.
Bego made his debut for Hajduk in an early 1957 cup match against Lokomotiva and scored 173 goals in 375 games for the club.[2] He moved abroad to play for Bayern Munich, FC Twente, Bayer Leverkusen and Austria Salzburg before returning to Yugoslavia in 1971 and finish his career at Junak Sinj and Uskok Klis.[3]
He made his debut for Yugoslavia in a November 1961 friendly match against Austria and earned a total of 6 caps scoring 2 goals. His final international was a December 1961 friendly against Israel.[4] He was also part of the Yugoslavian side which won gold at the 1960 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.[5]