Krešimir Arapović (23 November 1924 – 17 July 1994) was a Croatian

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player and manager.

Biography

Born in

Čapljina Čapljina ( cyrl, Чапљина, ) is a city located in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located on the border with Croatia a mere from the Adriatic Sea. The rive ...

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, in the

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, he became a trophy winning

HNK Hajduk Split Hrvatski Nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split (), is a Croatian professional Association football, football Football team, club based in Split, Croatia, Split, that competes in the Croatian First Football League, Cro ...

player and coach. He played mostly as an offensive right-winger.Krešimir Arapović
at Hajduk Split official website He started playing football while with the

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during the

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. In 1945 he became a player of

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where he played one season. In 1947 he started wearing the white shirt of Hajduk Split which he wore all the way until 1954. Nicknamed "Arap", he played with Hajduk a total of 216 matches having scored 81 goals, winning two national titles, in 1950 and 1952. He leaves

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in direction of

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where he becomes player/manager of

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. He earns his coaching diploma in Belgrade in 1961 and becomes the manager of

Yugoslav Second League Yugoslav Second League ( Bosnian: ''Druga savezna liga,'' Croatian: ''Druga savezna liga'', Serbian: ''Друга савезна лига'', Slovenian: ''Druga zvezna liga'', Macedonian: ''Втора сојузна лига'', ''Vtora sojuzna l ...

club

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. Afterwards, he coached the youth team of Hajduk Split in a period when the club was giving much emphasis to working and discovering young talents throughout the lower leagues. He was also the assistant manager of

Milovan Ćirić Milovan Ćirić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милован Ћирић; 12 February 1918 – 14 October 1986) was a Yugoslav football coach and player. He was the last player to captain SK Jugoslavija and the first captain of Red Star Belgrade (1945–19 ...

during the 1963–64 season. Arapović insisted in the creation within the club of a B team where the reserve and younger players would gain the necessary experience, a practice which ended up being very successful, with many players from his team becoming regular starters in the main team in future. For a short period during June 1964 he was the club's main coach. In his coaching career he also managed

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and Sloga Mravinci.

Personal life

Death

He died on July 17, 1994, in

and was buried in the city cemetery Lovrinac.

Honours

Hajduk Split *

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League ( Bosnian: Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Прва савезна лига у фудбалу, Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, , , , , ) was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) ...

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 ...

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ...

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Arapovic, Kresimir 1924 births 1994 deaths Footballers from Čapljina Men's association football midfielders Yugoslav men's footballers NK Neretva players HNK Hajduk Split players FK Srem players Yugoslav First League players Yugoslav football managers FK Srem managers RFK Novi Sad 1921 managers NK Troglav 1918 Livno managers RNK Split managers GFK Sloboda Užice managers FK Borac Banja Luka managers HNK Hajduk Split non-playing staff