Ratko Kacian
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox football biography Ratko Kacian (Script error: No such module "IPA".;[1][2] 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 team in 1946.[3] He was also part of Yugoslavia's squad at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, without appearing in any matches.[4]
Club career
Kacian played for HAŠK in Zagreb and Hajduk Split before moving to Dinamo Zagreb after World War II.[5]
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. 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 in May 1946, in a friendly against Czechoslovakia.[6]
Personal life
Death
He died of endocarditis in the summer of 1949.[7]
References
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- 1917 births
- 1949 deaths
- Footballers from Zadar
- People from the Kingdom of Dalmatia
- Men's association football forwards
- Croatian men's footballers
- Croatia men's international footballers
- Yugoslav men's footballers
- Yugoslavia men's international footballers
- Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia
- Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia
- Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in football
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Dual internationalists (men's football)
- HAŠK players
- HNK Hajduk Split players
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb players
- Yugoslav First League players
- Deaths from endocarditis
- Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery