Dragutin Vrđuka

Dragutin Vrđuka
Personal information
Date of birth	3 April 1895
Place of birth	Zagreb, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	23 January 1948 (aged 52)
Place of death	Zagreb, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team
1918-1924	Građanski Zagreb
International career
1920–1924	Kingdom of SCS
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dragutin Vrđuka (3 April 1895 – 23 January 1948) was a Yugoslav football goalkeeper. He was the first goalkeeper of the Yugoslavia national football team.

He played 15 games for the city squad of Zagreb, and seven games for the national team. On the club level he played for Građanski Zagreb. He died on 23 January 1948 from tuberculosis.

International career

Vrđuka made his debut for Yugoslavia in an August 1920 Olympic Games match against Czechoslovakia and earned a total of 7 caps, scoring no goals. He played at both the 1920 Summer Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics.^[1] His final international was in May 1924 at that latter tournament against Uruguay. Remarkably, he both lost his first and last international game 7-0.^[2]

References

^ "Dragutin Vrđuka". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 15 January 2023.

External links

Dragutin Vrđuka at National-Football-Teams.com
Dragutin Vrđuka at EU-Football.info
Dragutin Vrđuka at Olympedia

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[1] "Dragutin Vrđuka". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 August 2021.

[2] "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 15 January 2023.

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