Joško Popović (born 19 January 1966) is a Croatian former professional

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er who played as a striker.

Club career

Popović was born in

Opuzen Opuzen () is a small town in Dubrovnik-Neretva County in Croatia. The town is located upstream from the mouth of the river Neretva, in southern Dalmatia. This settlement is known as a major center of tangerine production in Croatia. Opuzen got i ...

. He played for several

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sides during his career, including

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, Kamen Ingrad and

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, with whom he was the league top scorer in the 1998–99 season with 21 goals. As of May 2010 and the conclusion of the 2009–10 Prva HNL season, Popović is ranked as the third all-time top scorer in

with 111 goals scored, behind

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(126) and

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(136).

International career

Popović played one game for the Croatia national team, on 20 April 1994 against

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in a friendly game, scoring in the 67th minute after being brought on at half time as a substitute for

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* * 1966 births Living people People from Opuzen Sportspeople from Dubrovnik-Neretva County Yugoslav men's footballers Croatian men's footballers 21st-century Croatian sportsmen Men's association football forwards Croatia men's international footballers Croatian Football League players Austrian Football Bundesliga players FK Velež Mostar players NK Zagreb players FC Stahl Linz (2013) players HNK Šibenik players NK Kamen Ingrad players Croatian expatriate men's footballers Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Austria {{Croatia-footy-forward-stub