Franjo Šoštarić
Personal information
Date of birth (1919-08-01)1 August 1919
Place of birth Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Date of death 27 August 1975(1975-08-27) (aged 56)
Place of death Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1940–1942 HAŠK
1943–1945 Građanski Zagreb 4 (0)
1946–1952 Partizan 84 (0)
International career
1946–1951 Yugoslavia 18 (0)
Medal record
Men's Football
Representing  Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place1948 LondonTeam
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Franjo Šoštarić (1 August 1919 – 27 August 1975) was a Croatian footballer who competed internationally for Yugoslavia.

Club career

Born in Zagreb, he started playing with HAŠK before moving to Građanski Zagreb in 1942 where he became the substitute of Franjo Glaser for the following 3 seasons. With Građanski he won one Croatian championship and two championships of the Zagreb Subassociation.[1]

In 1945 he moved to Belgrade and joined FK Partizan where he would play until 1949 making a total of 239 appearances (84 of which in the league)[2] and win two Yugoslav championships, in 1947 and 1949, and one Yugoslav Cup, in 1947.

International career

Šoštarić made his debut for Yugoslavia in an October 1946 Balkan Cup match against Romania and earned a total of 18 caps, scoring no goals. He was part of the Yugoslav squad at the 1948 Summer Olympics where Yugoslavia won the silver.[3][4] His final international was a June 1951 friendly match against Switzerland.[5]

Honours

Club

Građanski Zagreb
  • Croatian championship: 1943
Partizan

National team

Yugoslavia

References

  1. ↑ Franjo Šoštarić at Povijest Dinama (in Croatian)
  2. ↑ All-time FK Partizan players Archived 1 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine at FK Partizan official website
  3. ↑ Franjo Šoštarić at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
  4. ↑ "Franjo Šoštarić". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  5. ↑ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
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