Zijad Arslanagić is a Bosnian

Bosnians

Bosnians are people who reside in, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina. By the modern state definition a Bosnian can be anyone who holds citizenship of the state. This includes, but is not limited to, members of the constituent ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs and...

 former football player. He has one cap for the Yugoslav national 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...

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After beginning to play in a minor local club in his home town, FK Gimnazijalac, he signed with the city most proeminent club FK Leotar

FK Leotar Trebinje

FK Leotar is a football club from the city of Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Founded in 1925 in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the club served as a training ground for many players who went on to enjoy notable careers elsewhere...

 where he played between 1953 and 1956. In 1956 he moves because of the military service to Zemun, and afterwords, for a shortwhile, he plays with local club FK IM Rakovica

FK IM Rakovica

FK IM Rakovica is a Serbian football club based in Rakovica, Serbia. Trainer is Zoran Simeunovic-Current team:COUCH - Zoran SimeunovicDirector - Slobodan Jeftic...

. In 1958 he beging playing for FK Sarajevo

FK Sarajevo

FK Sarajevo is a professional football club based in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina and is one of the most popular clubs in the country. Founded on October 24, 1946, the club was the most successful club from SR Bosnia and Herzegovina in former Yugoslavia, winning two First League...

 and plays with them in the Yugoslav First League

Yugoslav First League

The Yugoslav First League was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and socialist Yugoslavia...

 until 1964 when he moves to NK Olimpija Ljubljana

NK Olimpija Ljubljana (1911)

NK Olimpija Ljubljana was a Slovenian association football club based in Ljubljana. The club had traced its origin back to 1911 when it was originally founded as SK Ilirija. It had gone through a series of mergers in the first half of the 20th century before adopting the name Olimpija in 1962...

. In 1967 he moves abroad and plays one season with Belgian First Division club K. Beringen F.C.

K. Beringen F.C.

Koninklijke Beringen Football Club was a Belgian football club from the municipality of Beringen, Limburg . It existed between 1924 and 2002.-History:...

 and in the next year he moves to Germany and plays with Tasmania 1900 Berlin

Tasmania 1900 Berlin

SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin was a German association football club based in the Berlin district of Neukölln.- Tasmania 1900 :The team was founded on 2 June 1900 as Rixdorfer TuFC Tasmania 1900, changing its name when Rixdorf was re-named Neukölln in 1912...

 before retiring.

He played one match for the Yugoslav national 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...

 in the 1966 FIFA World Cup qualifications on November 7, 1965 in Belgrade against Norway, a 1-1 draw.

External sources

• Career story at Reprezentacija.rs.