Frane Matošić (25 November 1918 – 29 October 2007) was a Croatian football player and coach who played as a striker. He is regarded as one of Hajduk Split's greatest players and he is the club's all-time leading goalscorer.
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| Date of birth | 25 November 1918 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth |
Split, State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 29 October 2007 (aged 88) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Split, Croatia | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1935–1938 | Hajduk Split | 73 | (54) | ||||||||||||||
| 1938–1939 | BSK Belgrade | 14 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| 1940–1941 | Hajduk Split | 8 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
| 1943 | Bologna | 28 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
| 1944–1955 | Hajduk Split | 196 | (122) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 319 | (211) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1938–1953 | Yugoslavia | 16 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1956–1958 | Hajduk Split | ||||||||||||||||
| 1959–1961 | RNK Split | ||||||||||||||||
| 1961–1963 | Tunisia | ||||||||||||||||
| 1963–1964 | RNK Split | ||||||||||||||||
| 1965 | Hajduk Split | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Playing career edit
Club edit
Born in Split, Matošić started to play football with HNK Hajduk from Split. In his very first game for Hajduk in 1934 against Slavija from Sarajevo, Matošić scored two goals.[1] He played 16 seasons for Hajduk. His older brother Jozo Matošić was also football player with whom he was a teammate at Hajduk.
While serving the obligatory military service in the season 1939, he played for the BSK from Belgrade. Next season, season 1939–40, he returned to Hajduk. After Hajduk's management suspending the work of Hajduk in 1941, he went abroad to play for Bologna, played in season of 1942–43. When the information about restoring of Hajduk's work came to Frane Matošić, he returned to Croatia and smuggled himself on the free territory. There he joined Hajduk, that restarted its work on the free, Allied-controlled part of Croatia, on the island of Vis. Since then, Matošić was playing the games for Hajduk (that was playing friendly games against Allied teams on the Mediterranean). After the war Matošić as a team captain twice refused Josip Broz Tito's offer of transferring Hajduk to Belgrade and renaming it into "Partizan".[1] All together, Matošić played 739 games for Hajduk and scored impressive 729 goals.[1]
International edit
Matošić was a long-time Yugoslavia national team player. He played 16 games and scored six goals for Yugoslavia. His last game was in 1953, and in that game he also scored a goal. He was also part of Yugoslavia's squad for the football tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.[2] His final international was a May 1953 World Cup qualification match against Greece.[3]
Managerial career edit
After the ending of career as player, he turned to coaching career. He was the coach of Hajduk, few years after his brother Jozo was coaching it. He was also the coach of the Tunisia football team and of RNK Split.
Death edit
Matošić died in Split on the anniversary of Hajduk's historical victory over Red Star Belgrade in 1950.
Honours edit
Player edit
Hajduk Split
- Banovina of Croatia Championship: 1940–41[4]
- Socialist Republic of Croatia Championship: 1945, 1946[4][5]
- Yugoslav First League: 1950, 1952, 1955
- BSK Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Individual
- Socialist Republic of Croatia Championship top goalscorer: 1946
- Yugoslav First League Top Goal Scorer: 1948–49
Manager edit
RNK Split
- Yugoslav Second League (West): 1959–60
- Tunisia
- Africa Cup of Nations: third place 1962
Records edit
- Hajduk Split all-time leading goalscorer: 211 goals
- Hajduk Split all-time Leading goalscorer: 729 goals (unofficial matches included)
- Hajduk Split all-time appearance maker: 739 games (unofficial matches included)
References edit
- ^ a b c "Fenomen koji je i Titu rekao 'ne', ali i završio pred komisijom: 'Žao mi je što ga nisam jače udario!'". Sportske novosti (in Croatian). 11 June 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ "Frane Matošić". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ^ a b "Croatia - Final Tables". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 18 December 2008. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "Hajduku priznata i 18. titula". Sportnet.hr. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
External links edit
- Frane Matošić at EU-Football.info
- Frane Matošić at FootballDatabase.eu
- Frane Matošić at National-Football-Teams.com
- Frane Matošić at WorldFootball.net
- Frane Matošić at Olympedia
- Index.hr Otišao je veliki šjor Frane (in Croatian)
- Dnevnik.hr Umro Frane Matošić, najbolji strijelac Hajduka svih vremena (in Croatian)
- Het Belang van Limburg - online krant Voetballegende Frane Matosic overleden (in Dutch)
- Nogometni-magazin.com Matošić je umro na dan povijesne pobjede nad Crvenom zvezdom iz 1950. godine] (in Croatian)
- Kapetan koji je i Titu rekao "ne" (in Croatian)
- Matosic, Legenda Bola Kroasia, Meninggal Dunia
- Frane Matošić at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
