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Željko Čajkovski
Željko Čajkovski (5 May 1925 – 11 November 2016) was a Croatian and Yugoslav Association football, football player and coach, who played as a Forward (association football), forward. A prolific goalscorer, Čajkovski spent most of his career with his hometown club Dinamo Zagreb in the 1940s and 1950s, helping them win two championships of Yugoslavia and one Yugoslav cup. During this period he also scored 12 goals in 19 appearances for the national team, with whom he won the silver medal at the 1948 Olympic tournament in London and played at the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. After leaving Dinamo, he spent two more seasons at the German club SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen before retiring. His older brother Zlatko Čajkovski, Zlatko was also a successful footballer during the same period, most notably with Dinamo rivals FK Partizan, Partizan, and a Yugoslavia international. Playing career Club At club level he played from 1942 to 1945 for HAŠK, HAŠK Zagreb and, after the di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagreb
Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia at an elevation of approximately above mean sea level, above sea level. At the 2021 census, the city itself had a population of 767,131, while the population of Zagreb metropolitan area is 1,086,528. The oldest settlement in the vicinity of the city was the Roman Andautonia, in today's Šćitarjevo. The historical record of the name "Zagreb" dates from 1134, in reference to the foundation of the settlement at Kaptol, Zagreb, Kaptol in 1094. Zagreb became a free royal city in 1242. In 1851, Janko Kamauf became Zagreb's List of mayors of Zagreb, first mayor. Zagreb has special status as a Administrative divisions of Croatia, Croatian administrative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinamo Zagreb
Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb (), commonly referred to as simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Croatian football, having won twenty-five Prva HNL titles, sixteen Croatian Cups, еight Croatian Super Cups, and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. The club has spent its entire existence in top flight, having been members of the Yugoslav First League from 1946 to 1991, and then the Prva HNL since its foundation in 1993. At the end of the World War II, the new communist government of Yugoslavia considered Croatian clubs like HŠK Građanski as fascist and nationalist, because they had operated under the former Independent State of Croatia, which was an Axis member during the war. As such, they were formally disbanded and, in 1945, FD Dinamo was founded as a club to act as an unofficial successor to HŠK Građanski, getting around the ruling p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Barreau
Gaston Barreau (7 December 1883 – 11 June 1958) was a French football player and coach. He played primarily for FEC Levallois, but was also honored with 12 selections in the France national team between 1911 and 1914. He played as a defender. Barreau was known as a natural team leader. However, by nature he was reserved, almost shy.  He spoke little, never gave in to a challenge, and shined above all with his humility.  In his life he remained one of the most listened-to men in French football for four decades, between 1919 and 1958. Barreau began his managing career with France in 1919, when the national team was led by a committee of managers: (Barreau, Achille Duchenne, Gabriel Jardin, and Eugène Plagnes). Unable to free himself from his obligations at the Academy of Music in July 1930, he could not accompany France in the debut edition of the World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Baratte
Jean Baratte (7 June 1923, Lambersart, Nord – 1 July 1986) was a French football player and manager. A striker, he played for Lille OSC and was the twelfth goal scorer in Ligue 1. At international level, he scored 19 goals in 32 appearances for the France national team. Honours Lille * Division 1: 1945–46, 1953–54 *Coupe de France The Coupe de France (), also known in English language, English as the French Cup or less commonly as the France Cup, is the premier Single-elimination tournament, knockout cup competition in French football organised by the French Football Fed ...: 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48, 1952–53 Individual *Division 1 top scorer: 1947–48, 1948–49 References Profile* * 1923 births 1986 deaths People from Lambersart French men's footballers Footballers from Nord (French department) Men's association football forwards France men's international footballers Ligue 1 players Olympique Lillois players Lille OSC players AS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence was a centre of Middle Ages, medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful House of Medici, Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The Florentine dialect forms the base of Italian language, standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France National Football Team
The France national football team () represents France in men's international Association football, football. It is controlled by the French Football Federation (FFF; ), the governing body for football in France. It is a member of UEFA in Europe and FIFA in global competitions. The team's colours and imagery reference two national symbols: the French Flag of France, blue-white-red tricolour and Gallic rooster (''coq gaulois''). The team is colloquially known as ''Les Bleus'' (The Blues). They play home matches at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis and train at :fr:Centre_national_du_football, Centre National du Football in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines. Founded in 1904, the team has won two FIFA World Cups, two UEFA European Championships, one CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions, two FIFA Confederations Cups and one UEFA Nations League title. France was one of the four European teams that participated in the first World Cup in 1930 FIFA World Cup, 1930 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balkan Cup
The Balkan Cup (officially ''Coupe Balkanique de Football'') was an international association football competition contested on and off from 1929 to 1980 by countries from the Balkans region. The most successful team was Romania with four titles. Overview The first edition featured Romania, Greece, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria and was played over three years from 1929 to 1931. All teams played each other twice, home and away, and were awarded 2 points for a win and 1 point for a draw, with final ranking table determining the winner. Romania won the first title with a game in hand after beating Yugoslavia 4–2. In the following tournaments the system saw significant changes, with teams playing each other only once, and instead of taking three years to complete it was shortened to just a single week. From 1932 to 1936 the competition was played every year with the same four teams until the outbreak of World War II. After a seven-year hiatus due to World War II, the competition was rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nils Liedholm
Nils Erik Liedholm (; 8 October 1922 – 5 November 2007) was a Swedish association football, football midfielder and coach. ''Il Barone'' (the Baron), as he is affectionately known in Italy, was renowned for being part of the Swedish "Gre-No-Li" trio of strikers along with Gunnar Gren and Gunnar Nordahl at AC Milan and the Sweden men's national football team, Sweden national team, with which he achieved notable success throughout his career. Liedholm was an intelligent and technically gifted attacking midfielder, offensive advanced playmaker, playmaker who was renowned for his range of passing and his elegant style of play; he is regarded as one of Milan's and Sweden's greatest ever players, and considered one of the best players of the post-war era. At the end of the 20th century, Liedholm was voted the best Swedish player of the millennium by the readers of Sweden's largest newspaper, ''Aftonbladet''. As a coach, he was in charge of several teams in Italy, managing for nearly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Gren
Johan Gunnar Gren (; 31 October 1920 – 10 November 1991) was a Swedish professional association football, football player and coach. He is best remembered for playing for IFK Göteborg and AC Milan. A second striker, creative forward, known for his technical skill, vision, tactical intelligence, and passing ability as a playmaker, he was part of the famous "Gre-No-Li" trio of forward (association football), forwards at Milan and the Sweden men's national football team, Sweden national team. He was also capable of playing as an attacking midfielder, as an offensive–minded central midfielder, known as the ''mezzala'' role in Italian football jargon, or even as a striker (association football), striker. A full international between 1940 and 1958, he won 57 Cap (sport), caps and scored 32 goals for the Sweden men's national team. He was a part of the Sweden team that won gold at the Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics, 1948 Summer Olympics, as well as the team that finished sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Nordahl
Nils Gunnar Nordahl (; 19 October 1921 – 15 September 1995) was a Swedish professional footballer. A highly prolific, powerful, and physically strong striker, with an eye for goal, he is best known for his spell at AC Milan from 1949 to 1956, in which he won the ''scudetto'' twice, and also the title of ''pluricapocannoniere'', with an unprecedented five top scorer (''capocannonieri'') awards, more than any other player in the history of the Italian championship. Nordahl is Milan’s all-time record goalscorer, and he long held the record for most goals for a single club in the history of Italian league, before being surpassed by Francesco Totti in January 2012. He still holds the record for goals per appearance in Italy. He had several nicknames in Italy, whereof the most famous was ''Il Cannoniere'' ("The Prime Gunner"). He was also known as ''Il Pompiere'' ("The Fireman") and ''Il Bisonte'' ("The Bison'"). A full international between 1942 and 1948, he won 33 caps and sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gre-No-Li
Gre-No-Li is a contraction of the surnames of three Swedish footballers: Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm. The denomination was colloquially used after these players composed a formidable trio of attacking players while playing for the Sweden national team and Italian club A.C. Milan in the 1950s. The three forwards led Sweden to Olympic gold at the 1948 Olympic tournament in London. Shortly after that success, in January 1949, centre-forward Nordahl joined Milan, and was accompanied by Gren and Liedholm in the summer of the same year. The impact of the trio was immediate. Nordahl scored 16 goals in 15 matches in the second half of the 1948–49 season, and in the 1949-50 season Milan scored 118 goals in 38 matches (a record in 20-teams Serie A seasons). The trio's most notable achievement at the club came the following season, when Milan won the ''scudetto''; their first was won 44 years previously. Others have won the title: 1955 (Liedholm and Nordahl); 1957 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden Men's National Football Team
The Sweden men's national football team () represents Sweden in men's international Association football, football and it is controlled by the Swedish Football Association, the governing body of football in Sweden. Sweden's home ground is Strawberry Arena in Solna Municipality, Solna and the team is coached by Jon Dahl Tomasson. From 1945 to the late 1950s, they were considered one of the greatest teams in Europe. Sweden has made twelve appearances at the FIFA World Cup, World Cup with their first coming in 1934 FIFA World Cup, 1934. They have also made six appearances at the UEFA European Championship, European Championship. Sweden finished second at the 1958 FIFA World Cup, which they hosted, and third in both 1950 FIFA World Cup, 1950 and 1994 FIFA World Cup, 1994. Sweden's other accomplishments also include a gold medal at the Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics, 1948 Summer Olympics, and bronze medals in Football at the 1924 Summer Olympics, 1924 and Football at the 1952 Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
