Florijan Matekalo

Florijan Matekalo
Personal information
Full name Florijan Matekalo
Date of birth (1920-04-25)25 April 1920
Place of birth Jajce, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Date of death 20 May 1995(1995-05-20) (aged 75)
Place of death Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1933–1936 Elektrobosna Jajce
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1936–1939 Slavija Sarajevo
1939–1945 Građanski Zagreb 51 (21)
1946–1947 Partizan 8 (3)
International career
1940 Banovina of Croatia 4 (1)
1940 Yugoslavia 1 (0)
Managerial career
1957 Partizan
1962 Hajduk Split
1964 Partizan
1979 Partizan
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Florijan Matekalo (Croatian pronunciation: [flǒrijaːn matěːkalo]; 25 April 1920 – 20 May 1995) was a footballer who played international football for both Yugoslavia and Croatia.

He scored the first goal in the history of the Croatia national team and the first goal ever for FK Partizan.

International career

Matekalo debuted for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia's national team (Beli Orlovi) in a November 1940 friendly match against Nazi Germany and concurrently played all four matches for the Banovina of Croatia's national team, which represented the Croatian statelet within the kingdom.

References

  1. ^ "Flòrijān". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018. Flòrijān
  2. ^ "Máte". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018. Matékalo
  3. ^ "Players Appearing for Two or More Countries". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 3 August 2008. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Jutarnji article". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  5. ^ Mozzart article
  6. ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 20 October 2022.