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{{short description|Serbian footballer (1909-1963)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Ivan Bek
| image = Ivan Bek (1928).jpg
| caption = Bek in 1928
| image_size =
| fullname = Yvan Beck
| birth_date = {{birth date|1909|10|29|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Belgrade]], [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbia]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1963|6|2|1909|10|29|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Sète]], France
| height = 1.96 m
| position = [[Forward (association football)|Forward]]
| youthyears1 = 
| youthclubs1 = 
| years1 = 1925–1928
| clubs1 = [[BSK Beograd]]
| caps1 = 50
| goals1 = 51
| years2 = 1928
| clubs2 = [[FK Mačva Šabac|Mačva Šabac]]
| caps2 = 
| goals2 = 
| years3 = 1928–1931
| clubs3 = [[FC Sète|Sète]]
| caps3 = 
| goals3 = 
| years4 = 1931–1932
| clubs4 = [[Urania Genève Sport]]
| caps4 = 16
| goals4 = 16
| years5 = 1932–1935
| clubs5 = [[FC Sète|Sète]]
| caps5 = 69
| goals5 = 33
| years6 = 1935–1939
| clubs6 = [[AS Saint-Étienne|Saint-Étienne]]
| caps6 = 109
| goals6 = 93
| years7 = 1940–1943
| clubs7 = [[Nîmes Olympique|Nîmes]]
| years8 = 1943–1944
| clubs8 = [[AS Aix]]
| totalcaps = 254
| totalgoals = 193
| nationalyears1 = 1927–1931
| nationalteam1 = [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]]
| nationalcaps1 = 8
| nationalgoals1 = 4
| nationalyears2 = 1935–1937
| nationalteam2 = [[France national football team|France]]
| nationalcaps2 = 5
| nationalgoals2 = 0
}}

'''Ivan "Ivica" Bek''' ({{Lang-sr-Cyrl|Иван Ивица Бек}}; 29 October 1909 – 2 June 1963), also known as '''Yvan Beck''', was a Serbian-French [[Association football|football]] player.

He was part of Yugoslavia's team at the [[1928 Summer Olympics]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/111103 |title=Ivan "Ivica" Bek |work=Olympedia |access-date=17 September 2021 |archive-date=16 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916232112/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/111103 |url-status=live }}</ref> and at the [[1930 FIFA World Cup]].

==Club career==
Bek was born to a German father, and a Czech mother in the Serbian capital Belgrade borough of [[Čubura]]. Aged 16, he started playing in [[BSK Beograd|BSK Belgrade]] where he scored 51 goals in 50 matches. In 1928, Bek moved to [[FK Mačva Šabac|Mačva]], and soon proceeded to French [[FC Sète]]. In his first season, he reached the cup finals, but lost 2–0 against [[Montpellier HSC|Montpellier]]. Next year in cup finals against [[Racing Levallois 92|RC France]], was victorious for Sète (3–1) with Bek scoring two decisive goals  in extra time. Four years later with the same club, Bek was part of the first team that win the Double in France. Bek helped Yugoslavia get third place in the first [[1930 FIFA World Cup|FIFA world cup]] in Uruguay. Bek and his team went on a train from Belgrade to Marseille. When they came to Marseille they went on a crew ship to Uruguay in the second class.

==International career==
Internationally, Bek represented the Kingdom of [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]] (seven caps, four goals) and [[France national football team|France]] (five caps).  For Yugoslavia he debuted in 1927 against Bulgaria (2–0), participated Olympic tournament in 1928 in Amsterdam and played in the [[1930 FIFA World Cup]] for Yugoslavia scoring three goals. In 1933, Bek took French citizenship and renamed himself Yvan Beck and in February 1935 he was picked for the first time for the Equipe Tricolore.

===International goals===
:''Scores and results list Yugoslavia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Bek goal.''

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of international goals scored by Ivan Bek
|-
!scope="col"|No.
!scope="col"|Date
!scope="col"|Venue
!scope="col"|Opponent
!scope="col"|Score
!scope="col"|Result
!scope="col"|Competition
|-
| align="center"|1 || 14 July 1930 || [[Estadio Gran Parque Central]], [[Montevideo]], Uruguay || {{fb|BRA}} || align="center"|2–0 || align="center"|2–1 || [[1930 FIFA World Cup]]
|-
| align="center"|2 || rowspan=2|17 July 1930 || rowspan=2|Estadio Gran Parque Central, Montevideo, Uruguay || rowspan=2|{{fb|BOL}} || align="center"|1–0 || rowspan="2" align="center"|4–0  || rowspan="2"|1930 FIFA World Cup
|-
| align="center"|3 || align="center"|3–0
|}

==Post-playing career==
During the Second World War, Bek was a member of the [[French Resistance]]. After the war, he worked as a dockworker in Sète, where he died from a heart attack.

==Honours==
'''FC Sète'''
* Champion of France: 1934
* French Cup: 1930, 1934

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{NFT|22863|Ivan Bek (Ivica Bek)}}
* {{Reprezentacija|bek-ivan-beck-yvan|Ivan Bek (Yvan Beck)}}
* {{FFF|7421-beck-yvan|Yvan Beck}}
* {{FFF male|124-yvan-beck|Yvan Beck|archive=20180824183204}}
* [http://www.fff.fr/servfff/historique/historique.php?id=BECK%20Yvan Yvan Beck at the French Football Federation]{{dead link|date=February 2022}} {{in lang|fr}}
* {{sports links}}

{{Yugoslavia football squad 1928 Summer Olympics}}
{{Yugoslavia Squad 1930 FIFA World Cup}}

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