Mladen Ramljak (1 July 1945 – 13 September 1978) was a Croatian football defender.
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 1 July 1945 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Zagreb, FS Croatia, DF Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 13 September 1978 | (aged 33)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Novska, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1962–1973 | Dinamo Zagreb | 263 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
1974–1977 | Feyenoord | 68 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1977–1978 | AZ '67 | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Total | 331 | (5) | |||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1966–1972 | Yugoslavia | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Club career
editRamljak left Dinamo Zagreb for Dutch side Feyenoord after playing over 600 games for the club. He moved to AZ '67 after three seasons in Rotterdam, but never played for AZ as his career got cut short due to injury.[1]
International career
editHe made his debut for Yugoslavia in a May 1966 friendly match against Hungary and earned a total of 13 caps, scoring no goals. He was a participant at Euro 1968 and his final international was a May 1972 European Championship qualification match away against the Soviet Union.[2]
Death and legacy
editMladen Ramljak died in a road accident near Novska. Dinamo Zagreb holds an international memorial tournament in his honour for youth squads.[3]
References
edit- ^ Profile - Kent u deze nog (in Dutch)
- ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ Mladen Ramljak Tournament
External links
edit- Mladen Ramljak at National-Football-Teams.com
- Mladen Ramljak at EU-Football.info
- Mladen Ramljak at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)