Mihalj Mesaroš (, ; 27 July 1935 – 18 April 2017) was a Yugoslav/Serbian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

Career

Born in

Novi Bečej Novi Bečej (, ) is a town and municipality located in the Central Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 10,967, while Novi Bečej municipality has 19,886 inhabitants (2022 census). Name ...

and nicknamed "Meske"Pokloni u 2012. godini
at municipality of Novi Bečej official website, retrieved 29-11-2014 he started his career at local side FK Jedinstvo Novi Bečej from where he moved to

FK Proleter Zrenjanin FK Proleter Zrenjanin () is a defunct football club based in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, Serbia. History The club was founded on 27 June 1947 by the merger of three local rivals. Their first notable result was reaching the quarter-finals of the 1951 ...

playing back then in the

Yugoslav Second League Yugoslav Second League ( Bosnian: ''Druga savezna liga,'' Croatian: ''Druga savezna liga'', Serbian: ''Друга савезна лига'', Slovenian: ''Druga zvezna liga'', Macedonian: ''Втора сојузна лига'', ''Vtora sojuzna l ...

. Then he moves to the capital Belgrade and joins

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 ...

. He played 127 games and scored 57 goals for the black&whites, 43 games and 10 goals 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) ...

.All-time players #597
at FK Partizan official website, retrieved 29-11-2014 Next he played for

NK Rijeka Hrvatski nogometni klub Rijeka (), commonly referred to as HNK Rijeka, is a Croatian professional association football club from the city of Rijeka. HNK Rijeka competes in Croatia's top division, Supersport HNL, of which they have been members ...

and

FK Sloboda Tuzla Fudbalski klub Sloboda Tuzla English: Football Club Sloboda Tuzla) is a Bosnian professional football club based in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The English translation of the team's name is ''Football Club Freedom Tuzla''. The club is a mem ...

. In 1968, he moved to the United States and played with

Los Angeles Toros LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to: Science and technology * Length of stay, the duration of a single episode of hospitalisation * Level of service, a measure used by traffic engineers * Level of significance, a measure of statistical significanc ...

in the NPSL,Mihalj Meszaros
at NASLjerseys.com and next season the club changed its name to San Diego Toros and played in the NASL. Afterwards he returned to Yugoslavia and in 1974 he was back to the United States, this time playing with

San Jose Earthquakes The San Jose Earthquakes are an American professional association football, soccer club based in San Jose, California. The Earthquakes compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference (MLS), Western Conference. Origin ...

in the NASL.

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Mihalj Mesaros
at naslsoccer.blogspot.com 1935 births 2017 deaths People from Novi Bečej Footballers from Central Banat District Men's association football forwards Yugoslav men's footballers FK Proleter Zrenjanin players FK Partizan players FK Sloboda Tuzla players Trikala F.C. players HNK Rijeka players Los Angeles Toros players San Diego Toros players San Jose Earthquakes (1974–1988) players Yugoslav Second League players Yugoslav First League players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Greece Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in the United States {{Serbia-footy-forward-stub