Stjepan Bobek

Stjepan Bobek
Bobek in 1949
Personal information
Date of birth (1923-12-03)3 December 1923
Place of birth Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Date of death 22 August 2010(2010-08-22) (aged 86)
Place of death Belgrade, Serbia
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1936–1938 HŠK Derbi
1938–1942 ŠK Zagreb
1942–1944 HŠK Ličanin
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1942 Admira Wacker 8 (7)
1944–1945 Građanski Zagreb 15 (13)
1945 Yugoslav Army 3 (8)
1946–1959 Partizan 198 (121)
Total 224 (149)
International career
1946–1956 Yugoslavia 63 (38)
Managerial career
1959 Legia Warsaw
1960–1963 Partizan
1963 Legia Warsaw
1963–1967 Panathinaikos
1967–1969 Partizan
1969–1970 Olympiacos
1970 Altay
1970–1972 Galenika Zemun
1972 Dinamo Zagreb
1973–1974 Galenika Zemun
1974–1975 Panathinaikos
1975–1976 Panetolikos
1976–1978 Espérance
1978–1981 Vardar
Medal record
Men's Football
Representing  Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1948 London Team
Silver medal – second place 1952 Helsinki Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stjepan Bobek (pronounced [stjêpaːn bǒbek]; 3 December 1923 – 22 August 2010) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional football striker and later football manager.[1]

Usually a forward or attacking midfielder, Bobek was renowned for his technique, vision and goalscoring ability and is commonly regarded as one of Yugoslavia's greatest players. He is remembered for his time at Belgrade's Partizan, where he moved to following the end of World War II. He played for Partizan between 1945 and 1959 helping them win two Yugoslav First League titles and four Yugoslav Cups, and was named the club's greatest player in history in 1995. Internationally, he is the second all-time top scorer for the Yugoslavia national team, scoring 38 goals in 63 appearances between 1946 and 1956, and was member of Yugoslav squads which won two Olympic silver medals (in 1948 and 1952) and played in two FIFA World Cups (in 1950 and 1954).

After retiring from active football in 1959, he was a successful manager, winning Yugoslav and Greek national titles with Partizan and Panathinaikos.

  1. ^ "INTERVJU: Stjepan Bobek. Srbi su sjajni" (in Serbian). kurir-info.rs. 29 October 2006. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2013. Ja sam Hrvat, normalno, ali istina je da sam zavoleo Srbiju.