Playing position Team Apps Position Goalkeeper | Years Team Apps (Gls) | |
Date of birth (1936-05-22) 22 May 1936 (age 80) Place of birth Varaždin, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | ||
Zdravko Brkljačić (born 22 May 1936) is a former Croatian football goalkeeper who played in several clubs in Yugoslavia, Austria and Belgium.
Born in Varaždin, he started playing in NK Lokomotiva however he failed to break into the starting eleven, so he moved to FK Velež Mostar where he had a busy two seasons. In 1959 he moved to FK Vojvodina where he stayed a year and a half. He played with NK Karlovac before moving to Dinamo Zagreb where he stayed 3 seasons as a substitute goalkeeper having played only one match in the Yugoslav First League with them. Afterwords, he moves abroad, first playing one season in Austria with Wiener Sport-Club, and then to Belgium where he will play 7 years in top flight clubs K.A.A. Gent and Standard Liège. He played one match for the Yugoslav U-21 team.