Ante Mladinić

Ante "Biće" Mladinić (1 October 1929 – 13 June 2002) was a Croatian football manager.

He had a modest playing career for Hajduk Split, for whom he scored 43 goals in 146 matches, and Lokomotiva Zagreb.

Managerial career
Later, as coach, he had spells at NK Zagreb, Hajduk, FK Partizan and the Yugoslavia national football team in the mid-1970s. He ended his career as a staff member for Bordeaux, where he discovered players such as Bixente Lizarazu.

He died in Zagreb in 2002 following a long battle with throat cancer.