Aleksandar Živković (footballer born 1912)

Infobox Football biography
playername = Aleksandar Živković


fullname = Aleksandar Živković
nickname = Šimšir
dateofbirth = 25 December, 1912
cityofbirth = Orašje
countryofbirth = Austria-Hungary
dateofdeath = 2000
cityofdeath = Zagreb
countryofdeath = Croatia
height =
currentclub =
clubnumber =
position = Striker
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1928–31
1931–32
1932-35
1935-38
1938
1938-39
clubs = Concordia Zagreb
Grasshopper-Club Zürich
Građanski Zagreb
RCF Paris
CA Paris
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
caps(goals) =
nationalyears = 1931-35
1940
nationalteam = Yugoslavia
Croatia
nationalcaps(goals) = 15(15)
1(0)

Aleksandar Živković (born 25 December, 1912 [ [http://www.reprezentacija.co.yu/cgi-bin/index.pl?str=igraci&strana=Zivkovic_Aleksandar Aleksandar Živković] ] in Orašje - died 2000 in Zagreb) 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.

He was one of the top goalscorers in the Royal Yugoslavian championshp with 34 goals from 1929 to 1935. [ [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/joegtops.html Yugoslavia - List of Topscorers] ] He was capped 15 times for the Yugoslavian national team and once for the Croatian national team in 1940. He was one of seven Croatian players to boycott the Yugoslavian national team at the 1930 FIFA World Cup after the Football Association of Yugoslavia was moved from Zagreb to Belgrade.

During the Second World War Živković worked as a diplomat in the Independent State of Croatia's embassies in Berlin and Budapest. He was subsequently unwelcome in communist Yugoslavia and emigrated to South Africa in 1945. He lived there until 1993, when he moved back to the newly independent Croatia. He died in Zagreb in 2000. He is buried in the city's Mirogoj cemetery. [ [http://www.gradskagroblja.hr/Trazilica/MapPreview.aspx?CemeteryID=1&Field=75&DeptID=1&PersonID=218709 Aleksandar Živković] ]

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References

*"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