Josip "Mane" Bukal (15 November 1945 – 30 August 2016) was a Bosnian professional
football player and later on
football manager
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. During his playing days, he played as a
striker.
Early life
Bukal was born in the village of Okešinec near
Ivanić-Grad
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Geography
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* by train ...
where he started his primary education, before moving to
Veliki Crljeni
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in Serbia for the fifth, sixth, and seventh grade. He moved to
Sarajevo
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at the age of 15.
Club career
Bukal's involvement with football began with the youth team of local club
Željezničar. He scored 10 goals in one game for the youth team before he made his debut for the first team in 1963. He played 290 official matches with Željezničar and scored 127 goals. Bukal is the joint highest goalscorer in the history of the club, alongside
Dželaludin Muharemović
Dželaludin Muharemović (born 23 March 1970) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player.
Club career
As a kid, Muharemović started playing football for his hometown club Željezničar. He was considered to be one of the bigg ...
.
He was a member of the Željezničar team that won the
Yugoslav championship in the
1971–72 season.
In 1973, Bukal moved to Belgium to play for
Standard Liège
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. There he played there for three seasons, where he was the third highest goalscorer during the
1973–74 UEFA Cup season with 7 goals. He returned to Yugoslavia and, after one more season with Željezničar, retired in 1977. He was best known for his powerful shot. During a game in Belgium, the ball was "clocked" at after his shot.
International career
Bukal played for the junior and
Under-21 team before he made his senior debut for
Yugoslavia
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in an October 1966
friendly match
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against
Israel
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in which he immediately scored a brace. He had collected 24
caps
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and scored 10 goals in the blue national jersey.
His final international was a May 1974 friendly match against
Hungary
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.
Managerial career
After retirement, Bukal was employed by
Željezničar as a coach, later on becoming a manager. He first worked with the youth squads, but was also an assistant manager to
Blagoje Bratić in the
1987–88 season. During the beginning of the
1988–89 Yugoslav First League
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The season began on 6 August ...
season, Bukal was the manager of the first team after Bratić left the club with the end of the previous season. After Željezničar, he also worked as a manager of
Sloga Kraljevo.
Death
Bukal died on 30 August 2016, at the age of 70 in
Sarajevo
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,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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. He was survived by his wife and children.
Honours
Player
Željezničar
*
Yugoslav First League
The Yugoslav First Federal Football League ( Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...
:
1971–72
References
External links
*
Serbian football federation
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1945 births
2016 deaths
Footballers from Sarajevo
Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Association football forwards
Yugoslav footballers
Yugoslavia international footballers
FK Željezničar Sarajevo players
Standard Liège players
Yugoslav First League players
Belgian Pro League players
Yugoslav expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Yugoslav football managers
Bosnia and Herzegovina football managers
FK Željezničar Sarajevo managers
FK Sloga Kraljevo managers
Yugoslav First League managers