Artur Dubravčić

Artur Dubravčić

Personal information
Date of birth	15 September 1894(1894-09-15)
Place of birth	Vrbovsko, Austria–Hungary
Date of death	14 March 1969(1969-03-14) (aged 74)
Place of death	Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
	Olimpija Karlovac
	Concordia Zagreb
National team
1920–1924	Kingdom of SCS	9	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Artur Dubravčić (15 September 1894 – 14 March 1969) was a Croatian footballer.

When Dubravčić was still in high school in Karlovac, he was one of the founders and first players of the ŠK Olimpija Karlovac football club, which was established in 1908. During World War I he moved to Zagreb and joined local side Concordia, where he spent most of his professional career.

Dubravčić made history by being the first captain of Yugoslavia national football team in the team's inaugural match, a 7–0 defeat versus Czechoslovakia on 28 August 1920, at the 1920 Summer Olympics,^[1] and he also scored their first ever goal (against Egypt, five days later).^[2] He went on to appear and captain the team nine times in Yugoslavia's first 10 matches in the period between 1920 and 1924.

After retiring from football he worked as a football referee, sports journalist for Sportske novosti and correspondent for Politika, and a football official. He had died suddenly in 1969, just days before he was supposed to be given a life achievement award as part of Football Association of Yugoslavia's 50th anniversary celebration.

References

1. ^ "Olympic Football Tournament Antwerp 1920, Yugoslavia-Czechoslovakia match report". FIFA.com. http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197008/matches/match=32275/report.html. Retrieved 2010-02-08. 
2. ^ "Statistika utakmica reprezentacije" (in Serbian). reprezentacija.rs. http://www.reprezentacija.rs/cgi-bin/index.pl?str=utakmica&utak=00002. Retrieved 2010-02-08. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Artur Dubravčić – FIFA competition record
• Artur Dubravčić at the Serbia national football team website (Serbian)
• Artur Dubravčić at Sports-Reference.com

Persondata
Name	Dubravčić, Artur
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	15 September 1894
Place of birth	Vrbovsko, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	14 March 1969
Place of death	Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia