Full name Marijan Jantoljak Years Team Name Marijan Jantoljak | Playing position 0000–1958 Radnicki Nova Pazova Role Football player | |
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Date of birth (1940-07-02) 2 July 1940 (age 75) Place of birth Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
Marijan Jantoljak - razgovor
Marijan Jantoljak (born 2 July 1940) is a former Croatian football player.
As a player, he was the most capped goalkeeper of all time for HNK Rijeka. He also scored 15 goals during his time in Rijeka as he was a regular penalty kick taker. During the 1969–70 season, he did not concede a goal for 917 minutes, a record for any Rijeka goalkeeper. He has had two appearances for the Yugoslav national team (against Bulgaria and Israel), both in 1966.
Born in Zagreb, he started playing in a local club NK Ponikve. In his early career he also played with FK Radnicki Nova Pazova from where, in summer 1958, he joined FK Jedinstvo Zemun. In the season 1959–60 he joined Rijeka and stayed in the club until 1972. That year he moved to FK Borac Banja Luka and played another 5 seasons there. By the end of his career he played with Yugoslav Second League sides Metalac Sisak and HNK Segesta.
After retiring as a player at the age of 39, Jantoljak became a coach. Among other clubs, he has managed HNK Rijeka during the 1991–92 and 1995 seasons.