Mladen Košćak (also spelled Koščak; 16 October 1936 – 3 August 1997) was a Croatian and Yugoslav footballer.

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][3] His final international was a December 1956 friendly against Indonesia.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Košćak Mladen". Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 7 July 2010.
  2. ^ "Mladen Koščak". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mladen Koščak". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mladen_Ko%C5%A1%C4%8Dak
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