Full name Zvonko Strnad Playing position Date of birth 15 January 1926 Name Zvonko Strnad | Date of death 1979 Role Football player | |
Place of birth Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | ||
Place of death Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Zvonko "Tiba" Strnad (born and died in Zagreb, 1926–1979) was a Croatian football player.
Career
Zvonko played for various clubs from his hometown, Zagreb, namely, Zagorec and Metalac, before coming in 1946 to the city's main club, NK Dinamo Zagreb, where he played until 1954 with only a brief interruption, playing 111 league matches and scoring 23 goals. The exceptions were the 1948-49 and 1949-50 season in which he moved to Belgrade and played in FK Partizan where he won the national Championship in the 1948-49 season. He played two matches for the B Yugoslav national team.
He was known as a fast right winger, with excellent dribbling skills and great crossing passes.
His career was prematurely ended by a meniscus injury.
References
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