Aleksandar Živković (25 December 1912 – 25 February 2000) was a Croatian footballer. Domestically, he played for Croatian clubs

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and Građanski Zagreb, while abroad he played for

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and

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, CA Paris and

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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 The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930. FIFA, football's international governing body, selected Uruguay as host nation ...

after the

Football Association of Yugoslavia The Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ) ( sr, Фудбалски савез Југославије, Fudbalski savez Jugoslavije, hr, Nogometni savez Jugoslavije; bs, Fudbalski savez Jugoslavije; sl, Nogometna zveza Jugoslavije; mk, Фуд ...

was moved from

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. Živković made his international debut on 2 August 1931 (aged 18 years 7 months 8 days) against

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and scored the opening goal of a 2-1 win. Živković was the top scorer at the 1932

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, ...

, 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

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who also has 10, and only behind Bulgaria's

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(14) and Romania's

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(15).

After retirement

During the

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, Živković had served as a diplomat in the

Independent State of Croatia The Independent State of Croatia ( sh, Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH; german: Unabhängiger Staat Kroatien; it, Stato indipendente di Croazia) was a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Fascist It ...

's embassies in

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and

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. In 1945, after the war, he migrated to

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, where he lived until 1993, when he moved back to the newly independent

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. He died in

in 2000, aged 87, and was interred in

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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

: *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) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zivkovic, Aleksandar 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)