Ivo "Ive" Radovniković (9 February 1918 – 27 October 1977) was a

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n football player and manager.

Playing career

A native of

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, Radovniković joined local powerhouse Hajduk Split in 1930 at the age of 12, and debuted professionally for the club six years later in a match against

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. In the next 17 years with the club he appeared in a total of 475 matches and scored 160 goals (including 117 appearances and 23 goals in the

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). With the club he won the Banovina of Croatia championship in 1941 and two Yugoslav First League titles in

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and

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. During

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when Hajduk was briefly disbanded by the authorities he was one of the players who joined the re-established club in exile on the island of Vis (which was at the time stronghold of the

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) and where Hajduk played exhibition matches until the end of the war. He holds the distinction of appearing in 85 matches for the war-time Hajduk squad. Although he was never capped for

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, he was member of the Yugoslav squad which competed in the

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Managerial career

After retiring from football at the end of the 1952–53 season, he became a manager. He returned to Hajduk and managed their youth team from 1955 to 1958, before taking over as manager in the 1958–59 season and finishing seventh in the national championship. After that he had managing stints with several lower level sides, including Sloga Doboj and

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References

External links

*
Ivo Radovniković profile
at the Hajduk Split website {{DEFAULTSORT:Radovnikovic, Ivo 1918 births 1977 deaths Footballers from Split, Croatia People from the Kingdom of Dalmatia Men's association football midfielders Yugoslav men's footballers Croatian men's footballers 1950 FIFA World Cup players HNK Hajduk Split players Yugoslav First League players Yugoslav football managers HNK Hajduk Split managers RNK Split managers Burials at Lovrinac Cemetery