Ivan Cvjetković (born 2 January 1960) is a

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Club career

Ivan started his career in the

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League ( Bosnian: Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Прва савезна лига у фудбалу, Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, , , , , ) was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) ...

in 1982, playing in the Bosnian club Sloboda Tuzla. In 1984, he made a big move to the

n giants

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, where he will stay almost four seasons until January 1988, the only exception was the half season spend in

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. Then he moved abroad to

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to play in Sint-Truidense VV, where he will stay until January 1991. Then, he returned to Croatia, now already independent, and signed for

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club Inter Zaprešić. He also played for Segesta Sisak before returning, in January 1994, to

, called in that period Croatia Zagreb. He finished his playing career in another Croatian club Hrvatski Dragovoljac.

International career

Cvjetković made his debut for

in an October 1990

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against the

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and earned a total of 3 caps, scoring 1 goal. His final international was a June 1991 friendly away against

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. Since Croatia was still officially part of Yugoslavia at the time, all games were unofficial.

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* * 1960 births Living people People from Vukovar-Srijem County Men's association football forwards Yugoslav men's footballers Croatian men's footballers Croatia men's international footballers FK Sloboda Tuzla players GNK Dinamo Zagreb players FK Rad players Sint-Truidense V.V. players NK Inter Zaprešić players HNK Segesta players NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac players Yugoslav First League players Belgian Pro League players Croatian Football League players Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Belgium {{Croatia-footy-forward-stub