Dražan Jerković

Dražan Jerković

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Personal information
Date of birth	(1936-08-06)6 August 1936
Place of birth	Šibenik, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death
Place of death	Zagreb, Croatia
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1954–1965	Dinamo Zagreb	142	(96)
1965–1966	AA La Gantoise	3	(1)
Total		145	(97)
International career
1956	SR Croatia	1	(0)
1960–1964	Yugoslavia	21	(11)
Managerial career
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
Medal record Men's Football Representing Yugoslavia European Championship 1960 France Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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.

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

Club performance			League
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals
Yugoslavia			League
1954/55	Dinamo Zagreb	First League	1	0
1955/56			12	9
1956/57			15	9
1957/58			22	17
1958/59			14	7
1959/60			16	16
1960/61			8	5
1961/62			19	16
1962/63			14	12
1963/64			4	0
1964/65			17	5
Belgium			League
1965/66	La Gantoise	First Division	3	1
Country	Yugoslavia		142	96
	Belgium		3	1
Total			145	97

National team statistics

Croatia national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1956	1	0
Total	1	0

Yugoslavia national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1960	3	2
1961	5	3
1962	11	5
1963	0	0
1964	2	1
Total	21	11

References

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

Preceded by Just Fontaine

000FIFA World Cup Golden Shoe000 1962 Shared with: Leonel Sánchez, Garrincha, Vavá, Valentin Ivanov and Flórián Albert

Succeeded by Eusébio