Ivan Medarić
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 7 November 1912 | ||
| Place of birth | Sisak, Austro-Hungary | ||
| Date of death | 30 November 1990 (aged 78) | ||
| Place of death | Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 19xx–1935 | Segesta Sisak | ||
| 1935–1936 | HAŠK Zagreb | ||
| 1936–1937 | Građanski Zagreb | ||
| 1937–1940 | HAŠK Zagreb | ||
| 1940–1941 | Vojvodina | ||
| 1941–1943 | NAK Novi Sad | ||
| 1945–1946 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 1946–1947 | Željezničar Sarajevo | 14 | (7) |
| 1947–1948 | Naprijed Sisak | ||
| National team | |||
| 1937–1939 | Yugoslavia | 3 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| Naprijed Sisak | |||
| Lokomotiva Zagreb | |||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Ivan "Ivica" Medarić (7 November 1912 – 30 November 1990) was a Croatian footballer who played in top league clubs in Yugoslavia and in the Yugoslav national team.
Career
Born in Sisak,[1] Austro-Hungary (nowadays Croatia), he begin his career at local club HNK Segesta.[1] In 1935, along his teammate Jozo Kovačević, they moved to Zagreb and were signed by HAŠK. A year later Medarić signed with HŠK Građanski Zagreb playing back then in the Yugoslav First League. In his first season with Građanski, he won the national title, but a year later he was back with HAŠK, and was part of HAŠK team that won the 1937–38 Yugoslav Football Championship. He won 2 Yugoslav championships in a row with two different clubs.
He played with HAŠK until 1940 when he moved to Novi Sad and joined FK Vojvodina. He was part of Vojvodina so called "Millioners" team that finished third in the 1940–41 Serbian League[2] and was qualified for the final phase of the Yugoslav League, however due to the start of the Second World War the championship was cancelled. In 1941 the city of Novi Sad was occupied by Hungary. FK Vojvodina stopped their activities. Medarić for some time continued playing football with NAK Novi Sad, then known as Újvideki AC and playing in the Hungarian championship. Medarić was in the group of Vojvodina players that joined NAK, among them there was goalkeeper Plac, Marjanović, Avramović, Jovanović and Živković, in order to avoid problems or even being sent to labour (concentration) camps.[3] Medarić was in danger because he had been a member of the Yugoslav Communist Party since he was 20, and he has already been imprisioned for illegal activities during the pre-WWII period in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia while he was a veterinary student in Zagreb. So in 1943 he left NAK and joined the Yugoslav Partisans in their fight against Axis forces.[1]
Immediately after the war, in 1945, he was among the first players of newly founded NK Dinamo Zagreb.[1] He entered into the history of Dinamo as the first ever scorer of the club, when he scored the first goal in the match against the team of the Yugoslav Air Force, a 2:0 win, played on June 23, 1945.[1]
He later played one season with FK Željezničar Sarajevo, before retiring in his home-town club HNK Segesta, known then as Naprijed.[1] After retiring he was a coach for some time at Naprijed and at NK Lokomotiva.[1]
He was condecorated by the Yugoslav Football Association, and has lived in Zagreb until his death, on November 30, 1990.[4]
National team
Medarić was a right-winger, and besides 18 appearances for the team of Zagreb football subassociation, and one for the B team of Yugoslavia, he played 3 matches for the Yugoslav national team.[1]
Honours
- Građanski Zagreb
- HAŠK
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Ivan Medarić biography at Reprezentacija.rs (Serbian)
- ↑ 1940–41 season at fkvojvodina.com
- ↑ Josip Velker at Reprezentacija.rs (see eight paragraph)
- ↑ Ivan Medarić at National-Football-Teams.com
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