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.
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]