Zvonko Bego
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| Full name | Zvonko Bego | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 19 December 1940 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Split, Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 13 August 2018 (aged 77) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Krapinske Toplice, Croatia | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1957–1967 | Hajduk Split | 169 | (35) | ||||||||||||||
| 1967 | Bayern Munich | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1967–1968 | FC Twente | 6 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1968–1969 | Bayer Leverkusen | 17 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1969–1971 | Austria Salzburg | ||||||||||||||||
| 1971–1972 | Junak Sinj | ||||||||||||||||
| 1972–1973 | Uskok | ||||||||||||||||
| Total | 182 | (37) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1961 | Yugoslavia | 6 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Zvonko Bego (19 December 1940 – 13 August 2018) was a Yugoslav footballer.[1] He spent most of his career with Croatian side Hajduk Split.
Club career[edit]
Bego made his debut for Hajduk in an early 1957 cup match against Lokomotiva and scored 173 goals in 375 games for the club.[2] He moved abroad to play for Bayern Munich, FC Twente, Bayer Leverkusen and Austria Salzburg before returning to Yugoslavia in 1971 and finish his career at Junak Sinj and Uskok Klis.[3]
International career[edit]
He made his debut for Yugoslavia in a November 1961 friendly match against Austria and earned a total of 6 caps scoring 2 goals. His final international was a December 1961 friendly against Israel.[4] He was also part of the Yugoslavian side which won gold at the 1960 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Preminuo zlatni olimpijac i nogometaš Hajduka Zvonko Bego (in Croatian)
- ^ PREMINUO ZVONKO BEGO – Hajduk (in Croatian)
- ^ Preminula je legenda Hajduka: Zvonko Bego umro u 78. godini – 24Sata (in Croatian)
- ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
- ^ "Zvonko Bego". Olympedia. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
External links[edit]
- Zvonko Bego at National-Football-Teams.com
- Zvonko Bego at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
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- 1940 births
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- Footballers from Split, Croatia
- Men's association football midfielders
- Yugoslav men's footballers
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