Mladen Koščak

Mladen Koščak

Personal information
Date of birth	16 October 1936
Place of birth	Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death	3 August 1997(1997-08-03) (aged 60)
Place of death	Zagreb, Croatia
Playing position	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1955–1963	Dinamo Zagreb	76	(0)
National team
1956	Yugoslavia	4	(0)
Honours Competitor for  Yugoslavia Men's Football Silver 1956 Melbourne Team Competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Mladen Koščak (16 October 1936–3 August 1997) was a Croatian footballer. Born in Zagreb, Koščak joined the youth academy of local side Dinamo Zagreb, with whom he spent his entire career.^[1] He started playing at full professional level in the 1955–56 season. Koščak soon established himself as a first-team regular and was instrumental in Dinamo's 1957–58 Yugoslav First League title.

Internationally, he was capped 4 times for the Yugoslavia national football team and was member of the national squad which won the silver medal at the 1956 Olympic tournament in Melbourne. Although he was considered a huge talent, his career was hampered by a serious injury and he effectively stopped playing by 1960, appearing in only a single match in his last three years with the club before retiring in 1963.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Koščak Mladen" (in Serbian). Reprezentacija.rs. http://www.reprezentacija.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1189&Itemid=12. Retrieved 7 July 2010. 

External links

• Mladen Koščak – FIFA competition record
• Mladen Koščak at Sports-Reference.com
• Mladen Koščak at Reprezentacija.rs (Serbian)

Persondata
Name	Koščak, Mladen
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	16 October 1936
Place of birth	Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
Date of death	3 August 1997
Place of death	Zagreb, Croatia