Petar Manola

Petar Manola
Personal information
Full namePetar Manola
Date of birth28 February 1918
Place of birthJajce, Austro-Hungary
Date of death1 January 2004 (aged 85)
Playing positionLeft midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1931-1936Slavija Sarajevo
1936-1942BSK Belgrade
1942-1947S.S. Lazio47(6)
1946-1947Olympique Lyonnais2(?)
1947-1948Red Star Paris24(1)
1948-1949Napoli14(1)
1949-1950Cavese 1919
1950-1951Benevento?(11)
1951-1956Turris 1944
National team
1939-1941Kingdom of Yugoslavia9(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Petar Manola (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Манола) (born 28 February 1918 – 2004) was a Bosnian Serb football player.

Club career

Born in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he started his career in Slavija Sarajevo where he played between 1931 and 1936 but, his greatest success was archived while playing in BSK Beograd, between 1936 and 1942, and made part of the memorable midfield line formed with Prvoslav Dragičević and Gustav Lechner, that won the Yugoslav First League in 1939. After the start of the World War II, he left Yugoslavia and continued his career in Lazio Rome playing in Italian Serie A.[1] Between January 1947 and summer 1948 he played in France, first in Second Division Olympique Lyonnais, and then in Ligue 1 famous club Red Star Paris. Afterwords, he returned to Italy where he played in S.S.C. Napoli, in the 1948-49 season, and then represented lower leagues clubs like S.S. Cavese 1919, Benevento Calcio and Turris 1944. He ended his playing career in 1956.[2]

He dies in 2004.[3]

International career

While playing in BSK Belgrade he played nine matches for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia national team.[4]

Honours

References

  1. ↑ Petar Manola at enciclopediadelcalcio.it
  2. ↑ Career story
  3. ↑ Petar Manola at EU-Football.info
  4. ↑ Petar Manola at National-Football-Teams.com

External sources