Bernard Vukas

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Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Yugoslavia
Men's Football
Silver	1948 London	Team Competition
Silver	1952 Helsinki	Team Competition

Bernard Vukas (Zagreb, May 1, 1927 – Zagreb, April 4, 1983) was a Croatian football player.

Contents 1 Teams 2 National Team 3 Achievmenst 4 Reference

[edit] Teams

• 1938 - 1945 Youth player at Concordia Zagreb
• 1945 - 1946 Amater Zagreb
• 1946 - 1947 NK Zagreb
• 1947 - 1957 HNK Hajduk Split
• 1957 - 1958 AC Bologna
• 1958 - 1963 HNK Hajduk Split
• 1963 - 1967 Klagenfurt Austria, GAK Graz, K.S.V. Kapfenberg
• 1967 - 1968 HNK Hajduk Split

[edit] National Team

For the Yugoslav national team, he played 59 games between 1948 and 1957, and scored 22 goals.

[edit] Achievmenst

• In Hajduk, Vukas won Yugoslav league titles three times, 1950, 1952 and 1955, wherapon the championchip of 1950 was achieved without a defeat. This record is still alive.
• Twice the Yugoslav national team including Bernard Vukas won the silver medal at the Olympic Games (1948 und 1952).
• In the 1954/55 season, he led the Yugoslav league as the top goalscorer, with 20 goals.
• He playes 615 games for Hajduk Split and scored 300 times.
• On 21. Octobre 1953 he played in Wembley for the "Rest of the World" team against England. The final result was 4:4.
• On 13. August 1955 he was invited to play for the UEFA-team (Continental Team) in Belfast against Great Britain. The game ended 4:1 with a hattrick by Bernark Vukas.
• He was also a part of the Yugoslavia team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup and 1954 FIFA World Cup.
• In 2000 he was elected for the best Croatian football player of all times.

[edit] Reference

• Nogometni leksikon (2004, on Croatian)
• Bernard Vukas