Dragutin Vrđuka Explained

Dragutin Vrđuka
Birth Date:1895 4, df=yes
Birth Place:Zagreb, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Zagreb, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
Position:Goalkeeper
Years1:1918-1924
Clubs1:Građanski Zagreb
Caps1:52
Goals1:1
Nationalyears1:1920–1924
Nationalteam1:Kingdom of SCS
Nationalcaps1:7
Nationalgoals1:0

Dragutin Vrđuka (3 April 1895 – 23 January 1948) was a Yugoslav football goalkeeper. He was the first goalkeeper of the Yugoslavia national football team.

He played 15 games for the city squad of Zagreb, and seven games for the national team. On the club level he played for Građanski Zagreb. He died on 23 January 1948 from tuberculosis.

International career

Vrđuka made his debut for Yugoslavia in an August 1920 Olympic Games match against Czechoslovakia and earned a total of 7 caps, scoring no goals. He played at both the 1920 Summer Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics.[1] His final international was in May 1924 at that latter tournament against Uruguay. Remarkably, he both lost his first and last international game 7-0.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dragutin Vrđuka . Olympedia . 17 August 2021.
  2. Web site: Player Database. 15 January 2023. EU-football.