Ferante Colnago

Ferante Colnago (11 July 1907 in Split – 15 May 1969 in Belgrade) was a Croatian football player. He has one cap for the Yugoslavia national team.

Ferante Colnago

Personal information
Full name	Ferante Colnago
Date of birth	(1907-07-11)11 July 1907
Place of birth	Split, Austro-Hungary
Date of death	15 May 1969(1969-05-15) (aged 61)
Place of death	Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1916–1923	Hajduk Split
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1923–1926	Concordia Zagreb
1926–1929	Soko Beograd
1929–1931	Olympique Marseille	14	(1)
1931–1938	Rapid București
International career
1929	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He was sometimes referred to as Ferante Kolnago which is the Serbian spelling.

Playing career

Playing mostly as a central defender he started to play in the youth teams of HNK Hajduk Split but failed to debut in the first team. Afterwards, he moved to Zagreb where he signed with HŠK Concordia. It was while he was playing with SK Soko from Belgrade that he played his only match for the Yugoslavia national team. It was on 19 May 1929 in Paris that Yugoslavia had achieved its first win over the "tricolor" by 3-1 and Ferante's brilliant performance on the match did not pass unnoticed, having earned him a call to join, together with Ivica Bek, Olympique de Marseille, where he would play two seasons. Between 1931 and 1938 he played with Rapid București in Romania.

After a heavy injury, he retired and returned to Belgrade where he began working as a bank employee.

External sources

• Ferante Colnago at National-Football-Teams.com
• Ferante Colnago at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)