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{{Short description|Croatian footballer (1917–1949)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name        = Ratko Kacian
| image       =
| birth_date     = {{birth date|1917|1|18|df=yes}}<ref name="COC">{{cite web|url = https://www.hoo.hr/hr/sportasi/biografije-sportasa?filterime=&filterprezime=&idsportas=&filtersport=18&filternatjecanja=&idsportas=20258|title = Ratko Kacian|date = 11 May 2017|publisher = [[Croatian Olympic Committee]]|access-date = 14 September 2017|archive-date = 15 September 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170915023614/https://www.hoo.hr/hr/sportasi/biografije-sportasa?filterime=&filterprezime=&idsportas=&filtersport=18&filternatjecanja=&idsportas=20258|url-status = dead}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Zadar]], [[Austria-Hungary]]
| death_date     = {{death date and age|1949|6|18|1917|1|18|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Zagreb]], [[FPR Yugoslavia]]
| position = [[Striker (football)|Striker]]
| youthyears1=| youthyears2 = 
| youthclubs1 = [[HNK Primorac Biograd na Moru|ŠK Primorac]] | youthclubs2 =NK Osvit
| years1 = 1936–1939 | years2 = 1939–1941 | years3 = 1941–1945 | years4 = 1945–1949
| clubs1 = [[HAŠK]] | clubs2 = [[Hajduk Split]] | clubs3 = [[HAŠK]] | clubs4 =[[Dinamo Zagreb]]
| caps1= | goals1 = | caps2 =21 | goals2 =21 | caps4 = 53 | goals4 = 15
| nationalyears1 = 1940     |nationalteam1  = [[Banovina of Croatia]]         | nationalcaps1  = 1 |nationalgoals1 = 0
| nationalyears2 = 1941–1943|nationalteam2  = [[Independent State of Croatia]]| nationalcaps2  = 9 |nationalgoals2 = 0
| nationalyears3 = 1946     |nationalteam3  = [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]]               | nationalcaps3  = 1 |nationalgoals3 = 0
| medaltemplates      =
{{MedalSport | Men's [[Association football|Football]]}}
{{MedalCountry | {{YUG}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}{{MedalSilver | [[1948 Summer Olympics|1948 London]] | [[Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Team]]}}
}}
'''Ratko Kacian''' ({{IPA|hr|râtko kǎtsiaːn}};<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hjp.znanje.hr/index.php?show=search_by_id&id=dltkWBc%3D|title=rȁt|quote=Rȁtko|website=Hrvatski jezični portal|accessdate=2018-03-17|language=sh}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://hjp.znanje.hr/index.php?show=search_by_id&id=elxvUBY%3D&keyword=Kocijan|title=Kòcijān|quote=Kàciān|website=Hrvatski jezični portal|accessdate=2018-03-17|language=sh}}</ref> 18 January 1917 – 18 June 1949; spelled '''Kacijan''' in some sources) was a Croatian and Yugoslav footballer. He played internationally for the wartime [[Independent State of Croatia]] team from 1940 to 1943 and for the [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia national team]] in 1946.<ref>[https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/double-caps.html Players Appearing for Two or More Countries]</ref> He was also part of Yugoslavia's squad at the [[1948 Summer Olympics]] in London, without appearing in any matches.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/700607 |title=Ratko Kacian |publisher=Olympedia |access-date=13 October 2021}}</ref>

==Club career==
Kacian played for [[HAŠK]] in Zagreb and [[Hajduk Split]] before moving to [[Dinamo Zagreb]] after World War II.<ref>
 {{cite news | language = Croatian | newspaper = [[Vjesnik]]; Sport section  | date = 13 February 1999 | url = http://www.vjesnik.hr/Html/1999/02/13/nspo.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20010517202428/http://www.vjesnik.hr/html/1999/02/13/nspo.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = 17 May 2001 | title = Hertha uveličava 88. obljetnicu Hajduka |trans-title=Hertha making Hajduk's 88th anniversary greater}}</ref>

==International career==
He played a single match for the [[Banovina of Croatia]] team, (then a province of [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]]) in a December 1940 friendly against [[Hungary national football team|Hungary]]. During the World War II he went on to earn nine caps for the [[Independent State of Croatia]] team, all of them in friendlies with other [[Axis powers]] nations. After the war, he continued playing professional football, and earned a single cap for [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslavia]] in May 1946, in a friendly against [[Czechoslovakia national football team|Czechoslovakia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=9978|title=Player Database|accessdate=17 September 2022|website=EU-football}}</ref>

==Personal life==
===Death===
He died of [[endocarditis]] in the summer of 1949.<ref>[https://www.reprezentacija.rs/kacian-ratko/ Profile] – Serbian federation official website</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Reprezentacija}}
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{{Yugoslavia Squad 1948 Summer Olympics}}

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[[Category:1917 births]]
[[Category:1949 deaths]]
[[Category:Footballers from Zadar]]
[[Category:People from the Kingdom of Dalmatia]]
[[Category:Men's association football forwards]]
[[Category:Croatian men's footballers]]
[[Category:Croatia men's international footballers]]
[[Category:Yugoslav men's footballers]]
[[Category:Yugoslavia men's international footballers]]
[[Category:Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia]]
[[Category:Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in football]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Dual internationalists (men's football)]]
[[Category:HAŠK players]]
[[Category:HNK Hajduk Split players]]
[[Category:GNK Dinamo Zagreb players]]
[[Category:Yugoslav First League players]]
[[Category:Deaths from endocarditis]]
[[Category:Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery]]


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