Franjo Šoštarić (1 August 1919 – 27 August 1975) was a Croatian footballer who competed internationally for Yugoslavia.

Club career

Born in

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, he started playing with HAŠK before moving to Građanski Zagreb in 1942 where he became the substitute of Franjo Glaser for the following 3 seasons. With Građanski he won one Croatian championship and two championships of the Zagreb Subassociation. In 1945 he moved to

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and joined

FK Partizan Fudbalski klub Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Партизан, ; ), often referred to in English as Partizan Belgrade, is a Serbian professional Football club (association football), football club based in Belgrade. It forms ...

where he would play until 1949 making a total of 239 appearances (84 of which in the league) and win two Yugoslav championships, in 1947 and 1949, and one Yugoslav Cup, in 1947.

International career

Šoštarić made his debut for

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in an October 1946 Balkan Cup match against

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and earned a total of 18 caps, scoring no goals. He was part of the Yugoslav squad at the 1948 Summer Olympics where Yugoslavia won the silver. His final international was a June 1951

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against

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Honours

Club

;Građanski Zagreb * Croatian championship: 1943 ;Partizan * Yugoslav First League: 1946–47, 1948–49 *

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: 1947

National team

;Yugoslavia *

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: Silver

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sostaric, Franjo 1919 births 1975 deaths Footballers from Zagreb Men's association football goalkeepers Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics HAŠK players HŠK Građanski Zagreb players FK Partizan players Yugoslav First League players Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery