Artur Dubravčić
Personal information
Date of birth (1894-09-15)15 September 1894
Place of birth Vrbovsko, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 13 March 1969(1969-03-13) (aged 74)[1]
Place of death Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Olimpija Karlovac
1920-1925 Concordia Zagreb
International career
1920–1924 Kingdom of SCS 9 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Artur Dubravčić (15 September 1894 – 13 March 1969) was a Croatian-Yugoslavian footballer.[2]

Club career

When Dubravčić was still in high school in Karlovac, he was one of the founders and first players of the ŠK Olimpija Karlovac football club, which was established in 1908. During World War I he moved to Zagreb and joined local side Concordia, where he spent most of his professional career.

International career

Dubravčić made history by being the first captain of Yugoslavia national football team in the team's inaugural match, a 7–0 defeat versus Czechoslovakia on 28 August 1920, at the 1920 Summer Olympics,[3] and he also scored their first ever goal (against Egypt, five days later).[4] He went on to appear and captain the team nine times in Yugoslavia's first 10 matches in the period between 1920 and 1924.[5]

Post-playing career

After retiring from football he worked as a football referee, sports journalist for Sportske novosti and correspondent for Politika, and a football official. He had died suddenly in 1969, just days before he was supposed to be given a life achievement award as part of Football Association of Yugoslavia's 50th anniversary celebration.

References

  1. ↑ "Artur Dubravčić". hoo.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Olympic Committee. 19 May 2017. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "Artur Dubravčić". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 26 October 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Olympic Football Tournament Antwerp 1920, Yugoslavia-Czechoslovakia match report". FIFA. Archived from the original on 22 May 2008. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
  4. ↑ "Dubravčić Artur". reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 13 June 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
  5. ↑ "Player Database". EU-football. Archived from the original on 10 July 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
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