Zdenko Kobeščak (born 3 December 1943) is a Croatian retired

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player. He earned two caps for

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in the 1960s.

Playing career

Club

Kobeščak made his official debut for

Dinamo Zagreb Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb ( en, Dinamo Zagreb Citizens' Football Club, link=yes, italics=yes), commonly referred to as GNK Dinamo Zagreb or simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo ...

in August 1962 against Partizan Belgrade, but his career at Dinamo was hampered by injuries. He played in both legs of the lost

1963 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final The 1963 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final was the final of the fifth Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. It was played on 12 June and 26 June 1963 between Dinamo Zagreb of Yugoslavia and Valencia CF of Spain. Valencia claimed their second major European trophy as ...

against

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but did not feature in Dinamo's

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Fairs Cup win. He played a total of 191 games for the club.

International

He made his debut for

in an October 1963

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away against

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and earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals. His second and final international was a November 1964 friendly against the

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Managerial career

He was an assistant coach to

Mirko Jozić Mirko Jozić (; born 8 April 1940) is a Croatian retired professional football manager and player. Managerial career As manager, he won the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship in Chile with the Yugoslavia under-20 national team composed of famou ...

at the

1990 UEFA European Under-16 Championship The 1990 UEFA European Under-16 Championship was the eighth edition of UEFA's European Under-16 Football Championship. East Germany hosted the championship, during 17–27 May 1990. 16 teams entered the competition, and Czechoslovakia won their fi ...

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* * 1943 births Living people Sportspeople from Zagreb Men's association football midfielders Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers GNK Dinamo Zagreb players NK Zagreb players NK Maribor players Stade Rennais F.C. players Montluçon Football players Yugoslav First League players Ligue 1 players Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in France Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in France Yugoslav football managers Croatian football managers GNK Dinamo Zagreb managers GNK Dinamo Zagreb non-playing staff {{Croatia-footy-midfielder-stub