Aleksandar Živković (footballer, born 1912)
{{Short description|Croatian footballer (1912–2000)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Aleksandar Živković
| image =
| full_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1912|12|25}}
| birth_place = Orašje, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2000|02|25|1912|12|25}}
| death_place = Zagreb, Croatia
| height =
| position = Striker
| currentclub =
| years1 = 1928–1931
| years2 = 1931–1932
| years3 = 1932–1935
| years4 = 1935–1938
| years5 = 1938
| years6 = 1938–1939
| clubs1 = Concordia Zagreb
| clubs2 = Grasshoppers
| clubs3 = Građanski Zagreb
| clubs4 = Racing Paris
| clubs5 = CA Paris
| clubs6 = Sochaux
| caps1 =
| goals1 =
| caps2 =
| goals2 =
| caps3 = 37
| goals3 = 27
| caps4 =
| goals4 =
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| goals5 =
| caps6 = 6
| goals6 = 3
| nationalyears1 = 1931–1935
| nationalyears2 = 1940
| nationalteam1 = Kingdom of Yugoslavia
| nationalteam2 = Banovina of Croatia
| nationalcaps1 = 15
| nationalgoals1 = 15
| nationalcaps2 = 1
| nationalgoals2 = 0
}}
Aleksandar Živković (25 December 1912[http://www.reprezentacija.rs/cgi-bin/index.pl?str=igraci&strana=Zivkovic_Aleksandar Aleksandar Živković]{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} – 25 February 2000) was a Croatian footballer. Domestically, he played for Croatian clubs Concordia Zagreb and Građanski Zagreb, while abroad he played for Grasshopper Club Zürich and RCF Paris, CA Paris and FC Sochaux-Montbéliard.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
Club career
He was one of the top goalscorers in the Royal Yugoslavian championship with 34 goals from 1929 to 1935,[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesj/joegtops.html Yugoslavia - List of Topscorers]
International career
Živković was capped 15 times for the Yugoslavia national team and once for the Croatia national team in 1940.
Živković was one of seven Croatian players to boycott the Yugoslavia national team at the 1930 FIFA World Cup after the Football Association of Yugoslavia was moved from Zagreb to Belgrade. Živković made his international debut on 2 August 1931 (aged 18 years 7 months 8 days) against Czechoslovakia and scored the opening goal of a 2–1 win.{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=23490|title=National football team player Aleksandar Živković|publisher=football.eu}} Živković was the top scorer at the 1932 Balkan Cup, with five goals.{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/balkancup.html |title=Balkan Cup (for Nations) |work=RSSSF |access-date=9 December 2016}} He was also part of the Yugoslavia team that won the 1935 Balkan Cup, contributing with 2 goals.{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=BlC-5|title=Balkan Cup 1935 results|publisher=football.eu}} With 10 goals in the Balkan Cup, he is the shared third all-time top goal scorer in the competition's history, alongside Asen Panchev who also has 10, and only behind Bulgaria's Ljubomir Angelov (14) and Romania's Iuliu Bodola (15).
After retirement
During the Second World War, Živković had served as a diplomat in the Independent State of Croatia's embassies in Berlin and Budapest. In 1945, after the war, he migrated to South Africa, where he lived until 1993, when he moved back to the newly independent Republic of Croatia. He died in Zagreb in 2000, aged 87, and was interred in Mirogoj cemetery.[http://www.gradskagroblja.hr/Trazilica/MapPreview.aspx?CemeteryID=1&Field=75&DeptID=1&PersonID=218709 Aleksandar Živković profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718134709/http://www.gradskagroblja.hr/Trazilica/MapPreview.aspx?CemeteryID=1&Field=75&DeptID=1&PersonID=218709 |date=18 July 2011 }}, gradskagroblja.hr; accessed 9 December 2016.
International goals
:Yugoslavia score listed first, score column indicates score after each Živković goal.
List of international goals scored by Aleksandar Živković{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=23490|title=National football team player Aleksandar Živković|publisher=EU-football.info|accessdate=7 June 2022}}
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|+ ! # !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition | ||||||
| align=center| 1. | rowspan=1|2 August 1931 | rowspan=1|Stadion SK Jugoslavija, Belgrade, Yugoslavia | rowspan=1|{{fb|TCH}} | align=center| 1–0 | rowspan=1 align=center| 2–1 | rowspan=1|Friendly |
| align=center| 2. | rowspan=2|26 June 1932 | rowspan=2|Beogradski SK Stadium, Belgrade, Yugoslavia | rowspan=2|{{fb|GRE|old}} | align=center| 5–1 | rowspan=2 align=center| 7–1 | rowspan=5|1932 Balkan Cup |
| align=center| 3. | align=center| 6–1 | |||||
| align=center| 4. | rowspan=2|30 June 1932 | rowspan=2|Beogradski SK Stadium, Belgrade, Yugoslavia | rowspan=2|{{fb|BUL}} | align=center| 1–3 | rowspan=2 align=center| 2–3 | |
| align=center| 5. | align=center| 2–3 | |||||
| align=center| 6. | 4 July 1932 | Beogradski SK Stadium, Belgrade, Yugoslavia | {{fb|ROU}} | align=center| 2–0 | align=center| 3–1 | |
| align=center| 7. | rowspan=1|9 October 1932 | rowspan=1|Stadion Letná, Prague, Czechoslovakia | rowspan=1|{{fb|TCH}} | align=center| 1–1 | rowspan=1 align=center| 1–2 | rowspan=1|Friendly |
| align=center| 8. | rowspan=2|3 June 1933 | rowspan=2|Stadionul ONEF, Bucharest, Romania | rowspan=2 | {{fb|GRE|old}} | align=center | 3–1 | rowspan=2 align=center| 5–3 | rowspan=3 | 1933 Balkan Cup |
| align=center| 9. | align=center| 5–2 | |||||
| align=center| 10. | 7 June 1933 | ONEF Stadium, Bucharest, Romania | {{fb|BUL}} | align=center| 2–0 | align=center| 4–0 | |
| align=center| 11. | rowspan=1|1 April 1934 | rowspan=1|Beogradski SK Stadium, Belgrade, Yugoslavia | rowspan=1|{{fb|BUL}} | align=center| 2–1 | rowspan=1 align=center| 2–3 | rowspan=1|Friendly |
| align=center| 12. | rowspan=2|3 August 1930 | rowspan=2|Yunak Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria | rowspan=2|{{fb|GRE|old}} | align=center| 1–0 | rowspan=2 align=center| 6–1 | rowspan=2 | 1935 Balkan Cup |
| align=center| 13. | align=center| 4–1 | |||||
| align=center| 14. | rowspan=2|18 August 1935 | rowspan=2|Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw, Poland | rowspan=2|{{fb|POL|1928}} | align=center| 1–2 | rowspan=2 align=center| 3–2 | rowspan=2|Friendly |
| align=center| 15. | align=center| 2–2 |
Honours
Yugoslavia
- Balkan Cup: 1935; runner-up 1932, 1933
Individual
- Balkan Cup top scorer: 1932 with 5 goals
References
{{Reflist}}
Sources
- Nogometni leksikon (2004, in Croatian)
- {{Cite book|author=Barreaud, Marc|title=Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932–1997)|year=1998|publisher=L'Harmattan, Paris|isbn=2-7384-6608-7}}
External links
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