Aleksandar Živković
Personal information
Date of birth (1912-12-25)25 December 1912
Place of birth Orašje, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 25 February 2000(2000-02-25) (aged 87)
Place of death Zagreb, Croatia
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1928–1931 Concordia Zagreb
1931–1932 Grasshoppers
1932–1935 Građanski Zagreb 37 (27)
1935–1938 Racing Paris
1938 CA Paris
1938–1939 Sochaux 6 (3)
International career
1931–1935 Kingdom of Yugoslavia 15 (15)
1940 Banovina of Croatia 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Aleksandar Živković (25 December 1912[1] – 25 February 2000) was a Croatian footballer. Domestically, he played for Croatian clubs Concordia Zagreb and Građanski Zagreb, while abroad he played for Grasshopper Club Zürich and RCF Paris, CA Paris and FC Sochaux-Montbéliard.

Club career

He was one of the top goalscorers in the Royal Yugoslavian championship with 34 goals from 1929 to 1935,[2]

International career

Živković was capped 15 times for the Yugoslavia national team and once for the Croatia national team in 1940.

Živković was one of seven Croatian players to boycott the Yugoslavia national team at the 1930 FIFA World Cup after the Football Association of Yugoslavia was moved from Zagreb to Belgrade. Živković made his international debut on 2 August 1931 (aged 18 years 7 months 8 days) against Czechoslovakia and scored the opening goal of a 2–1 win.[3] Živković was the top scorer at the 1932 Balkan Cup, with five goals.[4] He was also part of the Yugoslavia team that won the 1935 Balkan Cup, contributing with 2 goals.[5] With 10 goals in the Balkan Cup, he is the shared third all-time top goal scorer in the competition's history, alongside Asen Panchev who also has 10, and only behind Bulgaria's Ljubomir Angelov (14) and Romania's Iuliu Bodola (15).

After retirement

During the Second World War, Živković had served as a diplomat in the Independent State of Croatia's embassies in Berlin and Budapest. In 1945, after the war, he migrated to South Africa, where he lived until 1993, when he moved back to the newly independent Republic of Croatia. He died in Zagreb in 2000, aged 87, and was interred in Mirogoj cemetery.[6]

International goals

Yugoslavia score listed first, score column indicates score after each Živković goal.

List of international goals scored by Aleksandar Živković[7]

#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.2 August 1931Stadion SK Jugoslavija, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia1–02–1Friendly
2.26 June 1932Beogradski SK Stadium, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Greece5–17–11932 Balkan Cup
3.6–1
4.30 June 1932Beogradski SK Stadium, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Bulgaria1–32–3
5.2–3
6.4 July 1932Beogradski SK Stadium, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Romania2–03–1
7.9 October 1932Stadion Letná, Prague, Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia1–11–2Friendly
8.3 June 1933Stadionul ONEF, Bucharest, Romania Greece3–15–31933 Balkan Cup
9.5–2
10.7 June 1933ONEF Stadium, Bucharest, Romania Bulgaria2–04–0
11.1 April 1934Beogradski SK Stadium, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Bulgaria2–12–3Friendly
12.3 August 1930Yunak Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria Greece1–06–11935 Balkan Cup
13.4–1
14.18 August 1935Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw, Poland Poland1–23–2Friendly
15.2–2

Honours

Yugoslavia

Individual

  • Balkan Cup top scorer: 1932 with 5 goals

References

  1. Aleksandar Živković
  2. Yugoslavia - List of Topscorers
  3. "National football team player Aleksandar Živković". football.eu.
  4. "Balkan Cup (for Nations)". RSSSF. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  5. "Balkan Cup 1935 results". football.eu.
  6. Aleksandar Živković profile Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, gradskagroblja.hr; accessed 9 December 2016.
  7. "National football team player Aleksandar Živković". EU-football.info. Retrieved 7 June 2022.

Sources

  • Nogometni leksikon (2004, in Croatian)
  • Barreaud, Marc (1998). Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932–1997). L'Harmattan, Paris. ISBN 2-7384-6608-7.
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