Fahrudin Prljača

Fahrudin Prljača (born 3 November 1944) is a Yugoslav and Bosnian retired footballer who played the position of striker.[1]

Fahrudin Prljača
Personal information
Date of birth (1944-11-03) November 3, 1944
Place of birth Sarajevo, DF Yugoslavia
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
FK Sarajevo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1961–1973 FK Sarajevo 387 (79)
1973–1974 Sporting Hasselt 33 (9)
1974–1975 FK Sarajevo 19 (2)
1975–1976 Leotar 14 (0)
International career
1966 Yugoslavia 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

He was a member of FK Sarajevo from 1961 to 1973, and again between 1974 and 1975, going on to win the club's first Yugoslav League title in 1967.[2] He also represented Belgian side Sporting Hasselt.[2]

Fahrudin Prljača was born on January 3, 1944 in the small village of Prača on the outskirts of Sarajevo, and was educated and grew up in downtown Sarajevo.[3] He started his football career in the FK Sarajevo youth system, and made his debut for the first team on 22 April 1962, in a league fixture against Velež.[4] Although he still had the right to play for the juniors, Prljača joined the first team, and in the 1963-64 season he became irreplaceable in the starting lineup, making 33 appearances in all competitions, with six goals scored. Although his primary position was center-forward, managers often played him on the left wing.[5] He reached the pinnacle of his career in the 1966-67 season when he won the championship title with Sarajevo. With five goals scored in the title-winning season, he was Sarajevo's fourth most influential player in regards to offense, right behind the attacking trio of Prodanović-Musemić-Antić.[6]

In the following two years, he continued with good performances, becoming the team's top scorer, with 8 goals scored in all competitions, during the 1968-69 season.[7] Then came problems with injuries, due to which he made only 10 official appearances in the next two and a half years, and in January 1972 he was transferred to Belgian outfit Sporting Hasselt, for which he played for two years, only to return to the Koševo Stadium in 1974. This time he stayed for only half a year, after which he moved to Leotar, where he ended his playing career.[8]

He made 238 official appearances for Sarajevo, scoring 44 goals in the process. He made a total of 387 appearances, including friendlies, and scored 79 goals.[9]

International career

He made one appearance for the Yugoslavia national team in 1966 against Bulgaria.[10][11]

References
  1. "Fahrudin Prljača" (in Bosnian). Fksinfo.ba. Retrieved 2014-10-20.
  2. "Fahrudin Prljača član prve šampionske generacije" (in Bosnian). Oslobodjenje.ba. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2014-10-20.
  3. "Fahrudin Prljača za "Avaz": Željezničar nema rješenje za naše ofanzivne igrače". avaz.ba. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  4. "Fahrudin Prljača". bordovremeplov.ba. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  5. "Fahrudin Prljača". bordovremeplov.ba. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  6. "Fahrudin Prljača". bordovremeplov.ba. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  7. "Fahrudin Prljača". bordovremeplov.ba. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  8. "Fahrudin Prljača bio je član prve šampionske generacije FK Sarajeva". fksinfo.com. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  9. "Fahrudin Prljača". bordovremeplov.ba. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  10. Fahrudin Prljača at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
  11. "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2021-04-27.


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