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Role
  
Footballer

Name
  
Artur Dubravcic


Years
  
Team

Playing position
  
Midfielder

Position
  
Midfielder

Date of birth
  
(1894-09-15)15 September 1894

Place of birth
  
Vrbovsko, Austria–Hungary

Date of death
  
14 March 1969(1969-03-14) (aged 74)

Died
  
March 14, 1969, Zagreb, Croatia

Place of death
  
Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia

Artur Dubravčić (15 September 1894 – 14 March 1969) was a Croatian footballer.

When Dubravčić was still in high school in Karlovac, he was one of the founders and first players of the ŠK Olimpija Karlovac football club, which was established in 1908. During World War I he moved to Zagreb and joined local side Concordia, where he spent most of his professional career.

Dubravčić made history by being the first captain of Yugoslavia national football team in the team's inaugural match, a 7–0 defeat versus Czechoslovakia on 28 August 1920, at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and he also scored their first ever goal (against Egypt, five days later). He went on to appear and captain the team nine times in Yugoslavia's first 10 matches in the period between 1920 and 1924.

After retiring from football he worked as a football referee, sports journalist for Sportske novosti and correspondent for Politika, and a football official. He had died suddenly in 1969, just days before he was supposed to be given a life achievement award as part of Football Association of Yugoslavia's 50th anniversary celebration.

References

Artur Dubravčić Wikipedia