- Bernard Vukas
Bernard Vukas (
Zagreb ,May 1 ,1927 – Zagreb,April 4 ,1983 ) was aCroatia n football player.Teams
*1938 - 1945 Youth player at Concordia Zagreb
*1945 - 1946 Amater Zagreb
*1946 - 1947NK Zagreb
*1947 - 1957NK Hajduk Split
*1957 - 1958AC Bologna
*1958 - 1963 NK Hajduk Split
*1963 - 1967Austria Klagenfurt ,Grazer AK ,Kapfenberger SV
*1967 - 1968 NK Hajduk SplitNational Team
For the Yugoslav national team, he played 59 games between 1948 and 1957, and scored 22 goals.
Achievements
* In Hajduk, Vukas won Yugoslav league titles three times, 1950, 1952 and 1955, whereupon the championship of 1950 was achieved without a defeat. This record is still alive.
* Twice the Yugoslav national team including Bernard Vukas won the silver medal at the Olympic Games (1948 and 1952).
* In the 1954/55 season, he led the Yugoslav league as the top goalscorer, with 20 goals.
* He played 615 games for Hajduk Split and scored 300 times.
* On 21. October 1953 he played in Wembley for the "Rest of the World" team against England. The final result was 4:4.
* On 13. August 1955 he was invited to play for the UEFA-team (Continental Team) in Belfast against Great Britain. The game ended 4:1 with a hat trick by Bernard Vukas.
* He was also a part of the Yugoslavia team in the1950 FIFA World Cup and1954 FIFA World Cup .
* In 2000 he was elected for the best Croatian football player of all times.References
*"Nogometni leksikon" (2004, on Croatian)
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/bernardvukas Bernard Vukas]
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