en Bogdan Cuvaj

Bogdan Cuvaj
Personal information
Date of birth	21 October 1905
Place of birth	Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia,; Austria-Hungary
Date of death	23 July 1983 (aged 77)
Place of death	Zagreb, SR Croatia,; SFR Yugoslavia
Managerial career
Years	Team
1929–1934	Concordia
1941–1943	Independent State of Croatia
1945–1946	Metalac
1946–1952	Lokomotiva
1952–1955	Tekstilac
1956	Dinamo Zagreb
1958–1962	Kickers Offenbach

Bogdan Cuvaj (21 October 1905 – 23 July 1983) was a Croatian football manager in both club and international competition.

Career

He became the manager of Concordia Zagreb's youth side in 1926. After receiving managerial training in Vienna, Cuvaj became Concordia's manager in 1931, a position he held until the club was banned in 1945. With the club he won the 1932 Yugoslavian championship and the 1942 Croatian championship. From March 6, 1939 he served as secretary of the Croatian Football Federation and also managed his country under the flag of the Independent State of Croatia, a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945.

After World War II he managed Tekstilac Zagreb (1945–1946), Lokomotiva Zagreb (1946–1952), Metalac Zagreb (1952–1955) and Dinamo Zagreb (1955–1956).

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