Role Football player Name Franjo Sostaric | 1940-1942 HASK Years Team | |
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Date of birth (1919-08-01)1 August 1919 Date of death 27 August 1975(1975-08-27) (aged 56) Place of death Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia Died August 27, 1975, Belgrade, Serbia | ||
Place of birth Zagreb, Kingdom of SCS | ||
Franjo Šoštarić (1 August 1919 – 27 August 1975) was a Croatian football goalkeeper who competed internationally for Yugoslavia.
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Career
Born in Zagreb, he started playing with HAŠK before moving to Građanski Zagreb in 1942 where he became the substitute of Franjo Glaser for the following 3 seasons. With Građanski he won one Croatian championship and two championships of the Zagreb Subassociation.
In 1945 he moved to Belgrade and joined FK Partizan where he would play until 1949 making a total of 239 appearances (84 of which in the league) and win two Yugoslav championships, in 1947 and 1949, and one Yugoslav Cup, in 1947.
He made 18 appearances for the Yugoslav national team between 1946 and 1951, and will be part of the Yugoslav squad at the 1948 Summer Olympics where Yugoslavia won the silver.