Ante_Žanetić
Ante Žanetić
Croatian footballer
Ante Žanetić (18 November 1936 – 18 December 2014) was a Croatian professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
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| Full name | Ante Žanetić Zalante | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1936-11-18)18 November 1936 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Blato, Korčula, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 18 December 2014(2014-12-18) (aged 78) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Wollongong, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1946–1953 | BŠK Zmaj Blato | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1953–1954 | GOŠK Dubrovnik | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1954–1961 | Hajduk Split | 114 | (11) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1961–1964 | Club Brugge K.V. | 3 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1964–1966 | Racing White | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1956 | PR Croatia | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1959–1960 | Yugoslavia | 15 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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During his club career he played for NK Hajduk Split, Club Brugge K.V. and Racing White.
Žanetić later decided to leave Yugoslavia in order to play football in west Europe.[1] He abandoned the Hajduk Split squad while the team was in Germany in 1961 and moved to Belgium where he played for Club Brugge K.V. and Racing White.[2] He subsequently emigrated to Australia. He died there in 2014.[3]
He earned 15 caps for the Yugoslavia national football team, and participated in the 1960 European Nations' Cup and on the Yugoslavian team that won the 1960 Olympics.[4] He also played a friendly match for the PR Croatia national team against Indonesia. His final international was a September 1960 Olympic Games match against Denmark.[5]
- "Ante Žanetić", Nogometni leksikon, Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute. Zagreb, 2004.
- "Ante Žanetić: I write this for all football lovers, but especially for Hajduk's young Torcida". Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 2 July 2008.
- "Umro Ante Žanetić - Jutarnji.hr". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
- "Ante Žanetić". Olympedia. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
- "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- Ante Žanetić at FIFA (archived)
- Ante Žanetić at EU-Football.info
- Ante Žanetić at National-Football-Teams.com
- Ante Žanetić at Olympedia
- For infobox club stats: "Žanetić Ante". reprezentacija.rs. 28 January 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
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