Jozo Matošić (27 January 1913 – 1 March 1999) was a Yugoslav

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coach and player. He was captain of the famous

Hajduk Split Hrvatski Nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Split, that competes in the Croatian First League, the top tier in Croatian football. Since 1979, the club's home ...

side during

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. He was also the older brother of Frane Matošić, Hajduk's best goalscorer of all time.

Career

He began his career at Hajduk Split as a goalkeeper but

Luka Kaliterna Luka Kaliterna (13 October 1893 – 25 February 1984) was a Croatian football player and manager who played as a goalkeeper. Born in Split, he spent vast majority of his career with Split clubs Hajduk Split and RNK Split. See also * Fabj ...

made him a right-back. He was known for his great strength and character. He was also a regular player in the

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during the 1930s. He won the

1940–41 Croatian First League The Croatian League season of 1940-1941 was the first held in the Banovina of Croatia. Hajduk Split was the league champion. The league was organized by the Croatian Football Federation. League Champions Hajduk Split (Coach: Ljubo Benčić) Milje ...

at that time also. From 1941 to 1944, he was in the

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

. In 1944, he was captain of the Hajduk Split squad that was formed again on the island of Vis. From 1944 to 1945, he toured the Allied liberated territory with Hajduk Split. He won two

SR Croatia The Socialist Republic of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Hrvatska, Социјалистичка Република Хрватска), commonly abbreviated as SR Croatia and referred to as simply Croatia, was a ...

championships after the war, in 1945 and 1946. In August 1946, Matošić moved to

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(today's HNK Rijeka), where he was player–manager for the duration of the

1946–47 Yugoslav First League The 1946–47 Yugoslav First League season was the first season of the First Federal League ( sh-Latn, Prva savezna liga), the top level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, which ended the six-year period in which national footbal ...

. Shortly thereafter, he retired from football. Jozo Matošić is known for discovering

Vladimir Beara Vladimir Beara ( sr-Cyrl, Владимир Беара; ; 26 August 1928 – 11 August 2014) was a Yugoslav football goalkeeper and manager. He played the vast majority of his professional club career for Hajduk Split and Red Star Belgrade in the ...

, one of the best goalkeepers in the world during the 1950s. During his managerial time at Hajduk Split, he won the 1952 Yugoslav First League. He later went to live in

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where he worked at NK GOŠK. In his honour, the football academy in Dubrovnik was named after him.

Honours

Player

;Hajduk Split *

Banovina of Croatia The Banovina of Croatia or Banate of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=, Banovina Hrvatska, Бановина Хрватска) was an administrative subdivision ( banovina) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1939 and 1941. It was formed by a m ...

(1): 1940–41 ;Hajduk Split *

Socialist Republic of Croatia The Socialist Republic of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Hrvatska, Социјалистичка Република Хрватска), commonly abbreviated as SR Croatia and referred to as simply Croatia, was a ...

(2): 1945, 1946

Coach

;Hajduk Split *

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) ...

(1):

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ...

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Matosic, Jozo 1913 births 1999 deaths Footballers from Split, Croatia Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslav First League players Yugoslav football managers Player-coaches HNK Hajduk Split players HNK Rijeka players HNK Rijeka managers HNK Hajduk Split managers RNK Split managers Men's association football defenders Yugoslavia men's international footballers