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Dražan Jerković
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Jerković with Yugoslavia at the 1962 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Date of birth (1936-08-06)6 August 1936
Place of birth Šibenik, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death 9 December 2008(2008-12-09) (aged 72)
Place of death Zagreb, Croatia
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1954–1965 Dinamo Zagreb 142 (96)
1965–1966 AA La Gantoise 3 (1)
Total 145 (97)
National team
1956 PR Croatia 1 (0)
1960–1964 Yugoslavia 21 (11)
Teams managed
1971–1972 Dinamo Zagreb
1973–1974 Austria Klagenfurt
1974–1975 Villacher SV
1975–1976 Dinamo Vinkovci
1976–1982 NK Zagreb
1978 Yugoslavia
1990–1992 Croatia
Honours
Men's football
Representing  Yugoslavia
European Championship
Silver 1960 France Team
Gold 1971 İzmir as coach
  • Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Dražan Jerković (Croatian pronunciation: [drǎʒan jěːrkoʋitɕ]; 6 August 1936 – 9 December 2008) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional football manager and player. His professional playing career spanned from 1954 to 1966, during which he played for Dinamo Zagreb and AA La Gantoise.

His first name is sometimes (incorrectly) spelled "Dražen". He was born in Šibenik, at the time in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Playing career

Club

Jerković played for Dinamo Zagreb (1954–65). Severe injuries forced him to retire early, at the height of his career. With Dinamo he won the league title in 1958, and league cup in 1960 and 1965. In 315 games for Dinamo, he scored 300 goals.

International

He played internationally for Yugoslavia between 1960 and 1964, scoring 11 goals in 21 games. He participated in the 1960 European Championship and the 1962 FIFA World Cup. He was also part of the Yugoslav squad for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, but did not play.

In UEFA Euro 1960, he scored two goals against France in the semifinal, which Yugoslavia won (5–4). In the final, Yugoslavia lost against USSR (1–2; AET), finishing second.

In the 1962 FIFA World Cup, Jerković scored four goals and was, with five other players, the top goalscorer, winning the World Cup Golden Boot. Yugoslavia finished in fourth place. In the quarter-final, Yugoslavia beat Germany, while in the semifinal they lost to Czechoslovakia (1–3) and lost to Chile in the third place match (0–1).

Jerković played in a single international match with Croatia, as the Croatia national team was assembled in communist Yugoslavia once for a friendly against Indonesia in 1956. His final international was a September 1964 friendly match against Austria.

Managerial career

Dražan Jerković was also the first manager of the Croatia national team since independence, between 1990 and 1992. He died on 6 December 2008 in Zagreb.

Career statistics

Club

Club performance League
Season Club League Apps Goals
Yugoslavia League
1954–55 Dinamo Zagreb First League 1 0
1955–56 12 9
1956–57 15 9
1957–58 22 17
1958–59 14 7
1959–60 16 16
1960–61 8 5
1961–62 19 16
1962–63 14 12
1963–64 4 0
1964–65 17 5
Belgium League
1965–66 La Gantoise First Division 3 1
Country Yugoslavia 142 96
Belgium 3 1
Total 145 97

International

Croatia national team
Year Apps Goals
1956 1 0
Total 1 0
Yugoslavia national team
Year Apps Goals
1960 3 2
1961 5 3
1962 11 5
1963 0 0
1964 2 1
Total 21 11

See also

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