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NK Graničar Županja
NK Graničar is a Croatian football club, based in the town of Županja in Slavonia. History Nogometni Klub Graničar was founded in 1920 in Županja as ''HNK Graničar'', which is one of the most important sports symbols of today Županja. Županja is known as the first place where football was played within the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia. Namely, the economic interests and wealth of Slavonia attracted factory workers from England in Županja in 1880, who brought with them the first football. They conceived in Županja playing football, and in the absence of a sufficient number of players in the "ball" included the local population, mainly employees, but also workers on the felling and delivery of oak logs to the tanning factory in Županja. Most of the information about the founding of the club is from the legacy of documents and diary entries of Đuko Verner (1908– 1995), a longtime player and board member of the club. According to his data, the first usable ball, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dražen Ilić
Dražen is a Serbo-Croatian masculine given name, derived from Slavic languages, Slavic root ''-drag, drag'' ("dear, beloved"). Notable people with the name include: * Dražen Besek (born 1963), Croatian football player and manager * Dražen Biškup (born 1965), Croatian football player and manager * Dražen Bolić (born 1971), Serbian football player * Dražen Brnčić (born 1971), Croatian football player and manager * Dražen Budiša (born 1948), Croatian politician * Dražen Dalipagić (1951–2025), Serbian basketball player and manager of Bosnian-Herzegovinian origin * Dražen Erdemović (born 1971), Bosnian soldier and war criminal of Serb and Croat descent * Dražen Gović (1981–2022), Croatian football player * Mirko Dražen Grmek (1924–2000), Croatian and French historian of medicine * Dražen Funtak (born 1975), Croatian sprint canoer * Dražen Ladić (born 1963), Croatian football player and manager * Dražen Lalić (born 1960), Croatian sociologist * Dražen Marovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josip Lešić
Josip () is a male given name largely found among Croats and Slovenes, a cognate of Joseph. In Croatia, the name Josip was the second most common masculine given name in the decades up to 1959, and has stayed among the top ten most common ones throughout 2011. Notable people named Josip include: * Ruđer Josip Bošković, Ragusan physicist * Josip Bozanić, Croatian cardinal * Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav president * Josip Frank, Croatian politician * Josip Globevnik, Slovenian mathematician * Josip Golubar, Croatian footballer * Josip Hatze, Croatian composer * Josip Jelačić, Croatian ban * Josip Katalinski, Bosnian footballer * Josip Kozarac, Croatian writer * Josip Manolić, Croatian politician * Josip Marohnić, Croatian emigrant activist * Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician * Josip Projić, Serbian footballer * Josip Račić, Croatian painter * Josip Skoblar, Croatian former player and football manager * Josip Skoko, Australian soccer player * Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Clubs In Vukovar-Srijem County
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
