Joško Popović (born 19 January 1966, in

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) is a retired

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striker.

Club career

Popović played for several

Prva HNL The Hrvatska nogometna liga () ( en, Croatian football league), also known as HNL or for sponsorship reasons the SuperSport HNL, is the top Croatian professional football league competition, established in 1992. Previously, it was called Prva H ...

sides during his career, including

NK Zagreb Nogometni klub Zagreb (''Zagreb Football Club''), commonly known as NK Zagreb or simply Zagreb (), is a Croatian amateur football club based in the Croatian capital city of Zagreb. It currently competes in the fifth tier league competition of ...

, Kamen Ingrad and

HNK Šibenik Hrvatski nogometni klub Šibenik ( en, Croatian Football Club Šibenik), better known as HNK Šibenik or simply Šibenik (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Šibenik. It competes in the Croatian Football League, and plays their ...

, with whom he was the league top scorer in the 1998–99 season with 21 goals. As of May 2010 and the conclusion of the 2009–10 Prva HNL season, Popović is ranked as the third all-time top scorer in

with 111 goals scored, behind Igor Cvitanović (126) and

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(136).

International career

Popović played one game for the

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, on 20 April 1994 against

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in a friendly game, scoring in the 67th minute after being brought on at half time as a substitute for

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* * 1966 births Living people People from Opuzen Sportspeople from Dubrovnik-Neretva County Men's association football forwards Yugoslav men's footballers Croatian men's footballers Croatia men's international footballers FK Velež Mostar players NK Zagreb players FC Linz players HNK Šibenik players NK Kamen Ingrad players Croatian Football League players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Austria {{Croatia-footy-forward-stub