Branimir "Brana" Porobić (; 5 January 1901 – 18 December 1952) was a

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. He was one of the pioneers of Serbian football as one of the founders of SK BUSK and a member of the club direction of

BSK Belgrade OFK Beograd ( sr-Cyrl, ОФК Београд – Омладински фудбалски клуб Београд, English: ''Belgrade Youth Football Club'') is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade, more precisely in Karaburma, ...

Biography

Born in

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, he escaped to France during

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

where he finished high-school and played there in Lyon. When he returned to Belgrade he joined

in 1918 and played as a full-back. He debuted for the first team of BSK in 1919. That year he moved to another Belgrade club, BUSK, but in 1921 he returned to giants BSK bringing with him two of his BUSK teammates, Aleksandar Milošević and Dušan Zdravković. He played with BSK until 1926. He was part of the first Yugoslavia national team squad which was gathered to play in the

1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van ...

and he played in the second match on September 2, 1920 against Egypt. He also played 7 matches for the

Belgrade Football Subassociation The Belgrade Football Subassociation, commonly known by its initials, BLP ( Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: ''Beogradski loptački podsavez'' / Београдски лоптачки подсавез - БЛП) was one of the regional football governing bodie ...

selection. He was a member of the BSK direction board, and was one of the founders and a number 1 member of another club, SK BUSK. During the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

he was an officer in the French Army in the French occupation zone in the

Allied-occupied Germany Germany was already de facto occupied by the Allies from the real fall of Nazi Germany in World War II on 8 May 1945 to the establishment of the East Germany on 7 October 1949. The Allies (United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and France ...

. He died in Osnabrück,

West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...

, on September 25, 1973.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Porobic, Branimir 1901 births 1952 deaths Footballers from Belgrade Serbian men's footballers Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics OFK Beograd players Yugoslav First League players Expatriate men's footballers in France Men's association football defenders