Dražan Jerković

Dražan Jerković

Personal information
Date of birth	(1936-08-06)6 August 1936
Place of birth	Šibenik, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death	9 December 2008(2008-12-09) (aged 72)
Place of death	Zagreb, Croatia
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1954–1965	Dinamo Zagreb	142	(96)
1965–1966	AA La Gantoise	3	(1)
Total		145	(97)
National team
1956	SR Croatia	1	(0)
1960–1964	Yugoslavia	21	(11)
Teams managed
1971–1972	Dinamo Zagreb
1973–1974	Austria Klagenfurt
1974–1975	Villacher SV
1975–1976	Dinamo Vinkovci
1976–1982	NK Zagreb
1978	Yugoslavia
1990–1992	Croatia
Honours Men's Football Representing  Yugoslavia European Championship 1960 France Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Dražan Jerković (6 August 1936 – 9 December 2008) was a Croatian football forward and manager.

Biography

His first name is sometimes (incorrectly) spelled "Dražen". He was born in Šibenik, at the time in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

He played for Dinamo Zagreb (1954–65). Severe injuries forced him to retire early, at the height of his career. With Dinamo he won the league title in 1958, and league cup in 1960 and 1965. In 315 games for Dinamo, he scored 300 goals.^[1]

He played internationally for Yugoslavia between 1960 and 1964, scoring 11 goals in 21 games. He participated in Euro 1960 and World Cup 1962. He was also part of the Yugoslav squad for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, but did not play.

In Euro 1960 he scored two goals against France in the semifinal, which Yugoslavia won (5-4). In the final, Yugoslavia lost against USSR (1-2; AET), finishing second.

In World Cup 1962 Jerković scored four goals and was, with five other players, the top goalscorer, winning the World Cup Golden Boot. Yugoslavia finished in fourth place. In the quarter-final, Yugoslavia beat Germany (1-0). In the semifinal Yugoslavia lost to Czechoslovakia (1-3), and lost to Chile for third place (0-1).

Jerković played in a single international match with Croatia, as a Croatian national team was assembled in communist Yugoslavia once for a friendly against Indonesia in 1956. He was also the first manager of the new Croatia national football team, between 1990 and 1992. He died in December 2008 in Zagreb, Croatia.

Club statistics

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National team statistics

References

• Profile on Serbian national football team website
• Nogometni leksikon (2004, in Croatian)

Yugoslavia tournament squads
Yugoslavia squad – 1958 FIFA World Cup 1 Beara 2 Šekularac 3 Šijaković 4 Crnković 5 Tomić 6 Zebec (c) 7 Mš. Milutinović 8 Krstić 9 Boškov 10 Šantek 11 Popović 12 Petaković 13 Veselinović 14 Md. Milutinović 15 Krivokuća 16 Pašić 17 Rajkov 18 Lipošinović 19 Ognjanović 20 Radović 21 Irović 22 Jerković Coach: Tirnanić Yugoslavia squad – 1960 European Nations' Cup Runners-up GK Šoškić GK Vidinić DF Crnković DF Durković DF Jusufi DF Nikolić MF Kostić (c) MF Matuš MF Miladinović MF Perušić MF Žanetić MF Zebec FW Galić FW Jerković FW Knez FW Mujić FW Šekularac Coach: Lovrić, Nikolić & Tirnanić Yugoslavia squad – 1962 FIFA World Cup Fourth Place 1 Šoškić 2 Durković 3 Jusufi 4 Radaković 5 Marković 6 Popović 7 Anković 8 Šekularac 9 Jerković 10 Galić (c) 11 Skoblar 12 Krivokuća 13 Svinjarević 14 Šijaković 15 Matuš 16 Mujić 17 Melić 18 Kovačević 19 Stojanović 20 Nikolić 21 Stipić 22 Ivoš Coach: Lovrić & Mihajlović