Ante Mladinić | |
Birth Date: | 1929 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Split, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
Death Place: | Zagreb, Croatia |
Position: | Defender |
Years1: | 1947–1956 |
Caps1: | 40 |
Goals1: | 6 |
Years2: | 1954–1955 |
Years3: | 1955–1956 |
Years4: | 1956–1958 |
Clubs4: | RNK Split |
Manageryears1: | 1968–1974 |
Managerclubs1: | Yugoslavia U21 |
Manageryears2: | 1974–1976 |
Managerclubs2: | Yugoslavia |
Manageryears3: | 1977–1978 |
Managerclubs3: | Partizan |
Manageryears4: | 1978 |
Managerclubs4: | Yugoslavia |
Manageryears5: | 1979–1980 |
Managerclubs5: | Hajduk Split (assistant) |
Manageryears6: | 1980–1982 |
Managerclubs6: | Hajduk Split |
Ante "Biće" Mladinić (1 October 1929 – 13 June 2002) was a Croatian football manager.
He had a modest playing career for Hajduk Split, for whom he scored 43 goals in 146 matches,[1] and Lokomotiva Zagreb.
Later, as coach, he had spells at NK Zagreb, Hajduk, FK Partizan and the Yugoslavia national football team in the mid-1970s.[2] He ended his career as a staff member for Bordeaux, where he discovered players such as Bixente Lizarazu.[3]
He died in Zagreb in 2002[4] following a long battle with throat cancer.