Mladen Koščak

Mladen Košćak (16 October 1936 – 3 August 1997) was a Croatian footballer.

Mladen Košćak
Personal information
Date of birth 16 October 1936
Place of birth Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death 3 August 1997(1997-08-03) (aged 60)
Place of death Zagreb, Croatia
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955–1963 Dinamo Zagreb 76 (0)
International career
1956 Yugoslavia 4 (0)
Medal record
Representing  Yugoslavia
Men's Football
Silver medal – second place1956 MelbourneTeam Competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Born in Zagreb, Košćak joined the youth academy of local side Dinamo Zagreb, with whom he spent his entire career.[1] He started playing at full professional level in the 1955–56 season. Košćak soon established himself as a first-team regular and was instrumental in Dinamo's 1957–58 Yugoslav First League title. Although he was considered a huge talent, his career was hampered by a serious injury and he effectively stopped playing by 1960, appearing in only a single match in his last three years with the club before retiring in 1963.[1]

International career

Internationally, he was capped 4 times for the Yugoslavia national football team and was member of the national squad which won the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.[2] His final international was a December 1956 friendly match away against Indonesia.[3]

References
  1. "Košćak Mladen". Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 7 July 2010.
  2. "Mladen Koščak". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  3. "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 27 September 2022.


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