Franjo Rupnik
Encyclopedia
Career
He started playing in Hajduk Osijek, before moving to Zagreb's HŠK ConcordiaHŠK Concordia
HŠK Concordia was a Croatian football club formed in Zagreb. The club was founded asthe Srednjoškolski športski klub in 1906.By the end of the First World War the club had played many matches with both domestic and foreign clubs...
where he will play until the beginning of the World War II. In 1945, he moved to Belgrade's FK Partizan
FK Partizan
Fudbalski klub Partizan is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup in 1978...
, before returning to Osijek, in 1947, to play in Proleter, one of the predecessors of today's NK Osijek
NK Osijek
NK Osijek is a Croatian football club, from Osijek in eastern Croatia.- History :NK Osijek's early roots are found in club called NK Udarnik that was formed in 1945 under FPR Yugoslavia's new communist authorities on the ashes of dissolved HŠK Slavija...
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He played a total of six matches for the Yugoslavia national football team
Yugoslavia national football team
The Yugoslavia national football team represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in association football. It enjoyed a modicum of success in international competition. In 1992, during the Yugoslav wars, the team was suspended from international...
. His debut was in 1946 in Belgrade against Czechoslovakia ( a 4-2 win ), and his last match was in 1950, also in Belgrade, against Norway ( a 4-0 win ) scoring in that match his only goal for the national team.