Yugoslav soccer legend Bobek dies
Published 5:00 am Monday, August 23, 2010
- Stjepan Bobek in 1967. Bobek won two Olympic medals and once scored a record nine goals in a Yugoslav league game.
BELGRADE — Doctors say Yugoslav football legend Stjepan Bobek has died. He was 86.
Belgrade emergency clinic doctors did not immediately specify the cause of Bobek’s death early Sunday.
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The Croatia-born striker made his name playing for Partizan Belgrade between 1945-58, scoring 403 goals in 468 matches, a club record. In 1947, he scored a record nine goals in a Yugoslav league game.
He also scored 38 goals in 63 matches for the Yugoslavia national team. He won two Olympic silver medals in London in 1948 and Helsinki in 1954.
After ending his playing career, Bobek coached in Poland, Tunisia, Macedonia and Greece, including rivals Panathinaikos and Olympiakos.
He remained in the Serbian capital Belgrade after the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.