Josip Gucmirtl | |
Birth Date: | 16 March 1942 |
Birth Place: | Osijek, Independent State of Croatia |
Death Place: | Zagreb, Croatia |
Position: | Forward |
Clubs1: | Osijek |
Years2: | 1965–1973 |
Clubs2: | Dinamo Zagreb |
Caps2: | 191 |
Goals2: | 54 |
Years3: | 1973-1975 |
Clubs3: | Basel |
Josip Gucmirtl (16 March 1942 – 24 November 2009) was a Croatian football player. Gucmirtl first started playing for his hometown club NK Osijek before coming to Croatian powerhouse Dinamo Zagreb in 1965. Gucmirtl played as a striker for Dinamo throughout the remainder of his career, appearing in a total of 409 matches and scoring 109 goals for the Blues (including 191 appearances and 54 goals in the Yugoslav First League). He is mainly remembered for being a member of Dinamo's Golden Generation which won the 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the club's only European silverware in history.[1]
He debuted for Dinamo on 7 February 1965 in an Eternal Derby game against Hajduk Split at Maksimir, and his last match for Dinamo was on 25 June 1973 against Red Star Belgrade.[2] Apart from the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Gucmirtl also won the 1969 Yugoslav Cup with Dinamo.[2]