Dragutin Vrđuka (3 April 1895 – 23 January 1948) was a Yugoslav football goalkeeper. He was the first goalkeeper of the

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. He played 15 games for the city squad of

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, and seven games for the national team. On the club level he played for Građanski Zagreb. He died on 23 January 1948 from tuberculosis.

International career

Vrđuka made his debut for

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in an August 1920 Olympic Games match against

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and earned a total of 7 caps, scoring no goals. He played at both the

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and the

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. His final international was in May 1924 at that latter tournament against

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. Remarkably, he both lost his first and last international game 7-0.

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