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Mirko Kokotović

Mirko Kokotović
Personal information
Full name Miroslav Kokotović
Date of birth (1913-04-15)15 April 1913
Place of birth Lukavac, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 15 November 1988(1988-11-15) (aged 75)
Place of death Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Position(s) Left winger
Youth career
1926–1929 Maksimir
1929 1. HŠK Građanski
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1929–1945 1. HŠK Građanski 222 (52)
1945–1948 Dinamo Zagreb 51 (5)
International career
1931–1939 Yugoslavia 23 (4)
1940 Banovina of Croatia 3 (0)
1941–1944 Independent State of Croatia 12 (2)
Managerial career
1947 Dinamo Zagreb (player-manager)
Lokomotiva Zagreb
Varteks
HNK Segesta
Kozara Slavonski Brod
1958–1959 Odred Ljubljana
1959–1962 Borac Banja Luka
1962–1964 Fenerbahçe
1964–1965 AEK Athens
1964–1965 Diagoras
1966–1967 Velež Mostar
1969–1970 Austria Klagenfurt
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Građanski lineup that won the 1937 Kingdom of Yugoslavia championship. Standing (left to right): Urch, Jazbinšek, Hügl, Jozo Jakopić (secretary), Kovačević, Kokotović. Sitting (left to right) Danić, Lešnik, Antolković, Pleše, Medarić.
Građanski lineup that won the 1937 Kingdom of Yugoslavia championship. Standing (left to right): Urch, Jazbinšek, Hügl, Jozo Jakopić (secretary), Kovačević, Kokotović. Sitting (left to right) Danić, Lešnik, Antolković, Pleše, Medarić.

Mirko Kokotović (Croatian pronunciation: [mǐːrko kokǒːtoʋitɕ];[1][2] 15 April 1913 – 15 November 1988) was a Bosnian/Croatian footballer who played international football for Yugoslavia.

Club career

He became national champion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia with Građanski Zagreb in 1937 and 1940. During World War II he continued to play for Građanski, and after the war he joined the newly established Dinamo Zagreb, where he was one of the key players in the period from 1945 to 1948, and even acted as player-manager in the 1946–47 season.

During his time at Dinamo he played alongside other club greats such as Franjo Wölfl, Zvonimir Cimermančić, Željko Čajkovski, Ivica Horvat, Ratko Kacian and Ivan Jazbinšek.

After retiring from active playing in 1948 he managed a series of lower-tier clubs around Croatia and Yugoslavia, and in the early 1960s he went abroad and had managing stints at Fenerbahçe in Turkey and AEK Athens in Greece. His last managing job was at Austria Klagenfurt in 1969–70.

International career

His international career in Yugoslavia lasted from 1931 to 1939 during which he was capped 23 times, scoring four goals. Just before World War II he played four matches for the Banovina of Croatia team, which was a province within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. With the establishment of the wartime Independent State of Croatia in 1941, which was allied with Axis powers, Kokotović also played for its national team, earning 12 caps and scoring 2 goals in friendlies against other Axis national teams.[3]

References

  1. ^ "mȋr". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018. Mírko
  2. ^ "kȍkōš". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018. Kokótović
  3. ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
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