Dragutin Vrđuka (3 April 1895 – 23 January 1948) was a Yugoslav football goalkeeper. He was the first goalkeeper of the Yugoslavia national football team. He played 15 games for the city squad of

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, and seven games for the national team. On the club level he played for Građanski Zagreb. He died on 23 January 1948 from tuberculosis.

International career

Vrđuka made his debut for

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in an August 1920 Olympic Games match against

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and earned a total of 7 caps, scoring no goals. He played at both the 1920 Summer Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics. His final international was in May 1924 at that latter tournament against

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. Remarkably, he both lost his first and last international game 7-0.

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* 1895 births 1948 deaths Footballers from Zagreb Association football goalkeepers Yugoslav footballers Yugoslavia international footballers Olympic footballers of Yugoslavia Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics HŠK Građanski Zagreb players Yugoslav First League players 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Croatia {{Croatia-footy-goalkeeper-stub