Mladen Koščak

Mladen Košćak
Personal information
Date of birth	16 October 1936
Place of birth	Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death	3 August 1997 (aged 60)
Place of death	Zagreb, Croatia
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1955–1963	Dinamo Zagreb
International career
1956	Yugoslavia
Medal record
Representing Yugoslavia
Men's Football
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

Club career[edit]

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[edit]

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 match away against Indonesia.^[4]

References[edit]

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

External links[edit]

Mladen Koščak at FIFA (archived)
Mladen Koščak at EU-Football.info
Mladen Koščak at National-Football-Teams.com
Mladen Koščak at WorldFootball.net
Mladen Koščak at Olympics.com
Mladen Koščak at Olympedia
Mladen Koščak at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)

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[repka-1] "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.

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