Aleksandar Živković (25 December 1912 – 25 February 2000) was a Croatian footballer. Domestically, he played for Croatian clubs
Concordia Zagreb
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and
Građanski Zagreb, while abroad he played for
Grasshopper Club Zürich
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and
RCF Paris
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,
CA Paris and
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
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.
Club career
He was one of the top goalscorers in the
Royal Yugoslavian championship with 34 goals from 1929 to 1935,
International career
Živković was capped 15 times for the
Yugoslavian national team and once for the
Croatian national team in 1940.
Živković was one of seven Croatian players to boycott the Yugoslavian national team at the
1930 FIFA World Cup
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after the
Football Association of Yugoslavia
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was moved from
Zagreb
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to
Belgrade
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. Živković made his international debut on 2 August 1931 (aged 18 years 7 months 8 days) against
Czechoslovakia
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, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
and scored the opening goal of a 2-1 win. Živković was the top scorer at the 1932
Balkan Cup
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Overview
The first edition featured Romania, ...
, with five goals. He was also part of the Yugoslavia team that won the
1935 Balkan Cup, contributing with 2 goals. 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
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who also has 10, and only behind Bulgaria's
Ljubomir Angelov
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(14) and Romania's
Iuliu Bodola
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(15).
After retirement
During the
Second World War
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, Živković had served as a diplomat in the
Independent State of Croatia
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's embassies in
Berlin
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and
Budapest
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. In 1945, after the war, he migrated to
South Africa
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, where he lived until 1993, when he moved back to the newly independent
Republic of Croatia
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, anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland")
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. He died in
Zagreb
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in 2000, aged 87, and was interred in
Mirogoj cemetery
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.
International goals
:''Yugoslavia score listed first, score column indicates score after each Živković goal.''
List of international goals scored by Aleksandar Živković
Honours
International
;Yugoslavia
Balkan Cup
The Balkan Cup was an international association football competition contested on and off from 1929 to 1980 by countries from the Balkans region. The most successful team was Romania with four titles.
Overview
The first edition featured Romania, ...
:
*Champions (1):
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* ...
*Runners-up (2):
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
and
1933
Events
January
* January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
Individual
*Top goalscorer of the
1932 Balkan Cup with 5 goals
References
Sources
* ''Nogometni leksikon'' (2004, in
Croatian)
*
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1912 births
People from Orašje
2000 deaths
People of the Independent State of Croatia
Croatian footballers
Croatia international footballers
Yugoslav footballers
Yugoslavia international footballers
HŠK Građanski Zagreb players
Grasshopper Club Zürich players
Racing Club de France Football players
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players
Yugoslav First League players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Croatian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
Expatriate footballers in France
Croatian emigrants to South Africa
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
Association football forwards
Dual internationalists (football)