Franjo Šoštarić

Franjo Šoštarić

Personal information
Date of birth	1 August 1919
Place of birth	Zagreb, Kingdom of SCS
Date of death	27 August 1975 (aged 56)
Place of death	Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1940-1942	HAŠK
1943-1945	Građanski Zagreb	5	(0)
1945–1946	PR Croatia team
1946–1952	Partizan Belgrade	84	(0)
National team
1946–1951	Yugoslavia	18	(0)
Honours Men's Football Representing  Yugoslavia Olympic Games 1948 London Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

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

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.

He made 18 appearances for the Yugoslav national team between 1946 and 1951, and will be part of the Yugoslav squad at the 1948 Summer Olympics where Yugoslavia won the silver.^[3]

Honours

Club

Građanski Zagreb

• Croatian championship: 1943

Partizan Belgrade

• Yugoslav First League: 1946–47, 1948–49
• Yugoslav Cup: 1947

National team

Yugoslavia

• 1948 Summer Olympics: Silver

References

1. Franjo Šoštarić at Povijest Dinama (Croatian)
2. All-time FK Partizan players at FK Partizan official website
3. Franjo Šoštarić at Reprezentacija.rs (Serbian)