Bernard Vukas
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| Silver | 1948 London | Team Competition | |
| Silver | 1952 Helsinki | Team Competition | |
Bernard Vukas (Zagreb, May 1, 1927 – Zagreb, April 4, 1983) was a Croatian football player.
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[edit] Teams
- 1938 - 1945 Youth player at Concordia Zagreb
- 1945 - 1946 Amater Zagreb
- 1946 - 1947 NK Zagreb
- 1947 - 1957 HNK Hajduk Split
- 1957 - 1958 AC Bologna
- 1958 - 1963 HNK Hajduk Split
- 1963 - 1967 Klagenfurt Austria, GAK Graz, K.S.V. Kapfenberg
- 1967 - 1968 HNK Hajduk Split
[edit] National Team
For the Yugoslav national team, he played 59 games between 1948 and 1957, and scored 22 goals.
[edit] Achievmenst
- In Hajduk, Vukas won Yugoslav league titles three times, 1950, 1952 and 1955, wherapon the championchip of 1950 was achieved without a defeat. This record is still alive.
- Twice the Yugoslav national team including Bernard Vukas won the silver medal at the Olympic Games (1948 und 1952).
- In the 1954/55 season, he led the Yugoslav league as the top goalscorer, with 20 goals.
- He playes 615 games for Hajduk Split and scored 300 times.
- On 21. Octobre 1953 he played in Wembley for the "Rest of the World" team against England. The final result was 4:4.
- On 13. August 1955 he was invited to play for the UEFA-team (Continental Team) in Belfast against Great Britain. The game ended 4:1 with a hattrick by Bernark Vukas.
- He was also a part of the Yugoslavia team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup and 1954 FIFA World Cup.
- In 2000 he was elected for the best Croatian football player of all times.
[edit] Reference
- Nogometni leksikon (2004, on Croatian)
- Bernard Vukas
Categories: 1927 births | 1983 deaths | Bologna F.C. 1909 players | Athletes at the 1948 Summer Olympics | Croatian footballers | FIFA World Cup 1950 players | Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics | Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics | FIFA World Cup 1954 players | Hajduk Split footballers | NK Zagreb players | Olympic competitors for Yugoslavia | Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia
