Dragutin Vragović (18 September 1897 – 23 January 1973) was a Croatian footballer who spent the majority of his career with Građanski Zagreb in the 1920s. Vragović won two Yugoslav championships with Građanski (1923 and 1926) and was also member of the Yugoslav squad at the 1920 and 1924 Olympic tournaments.

Career

Vragović was known as a reliable

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at Građanski and performed well in centre back, midfielder and striker roles, in addition to playing as either left or right winger for the national team. He was also Građanski's captain in both of their successful Yugoslav championship campaigns in 1923 and 1926, and was one of their best players when the club toured abroad and defeated

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and

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in 1923. He also had 18 appearances for Zagreb XI (1920–1928) and was capped 7 times for Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1920–1923). He was called up for the team's first international tournament, at the

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, and he appeared in the country's first ever international match on 28 August 1920, a 7–0 defeat to

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. He was also an unused substitute at the 1924 Olympics. His final international was an October 1923

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against

Honours

* Kingdom of Yugoslavia Championship (2):

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vragovic, Dragutin 1897 births 1973 deaths Footballers from Zagreb People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia Men's association football midfielders Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia HŠK Građanski Zagreb players Yugoslav First League players