Josip Zemko | |
Birth Date: | 13 March 1946 |
Birth Place: | Subotica, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia |
Death Place: | Subotica, Serbia |
Height: | 178 cm |
Position: | Defender |
Years1: | 1959–1962 |
Years2: | 1962–1963 |
Years3: | 1963–1966 |
Years4: | 1966–1972 |
Years5: | 1972–1973 |
Years6: | 1973–1974 |
Clubs1: | Zvezda Subotica |
Clubs2: | Spartak Subotica |
Clubs3: | Željezničar |
Clubs4: | Vojvodina |
Clubs5: | Majdanpek |
Clubs6: | Bačka Subotica |
Caps3: | 66 |
Caps4: | 151 |
Goals3: | 0 |
Goals4: | 2 |
Nationalyears1: | 1965 |
Nationalteam1: | Yugoslavia |
Nationalcaps1: | 3 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Manageryears1: | 1974–1977 |
Managerclubs1: | Bačka Subotica |
Managerclubs2: | Spartak Subotica |
Manageryears3: | 2008 |
Managerclubs3: | Bačka Subotica (youth) |
Josip Zemko (13 March 1946 — 11 April 2017) was a Yugoslav football manager and player.
Zemko played a total of 74 matches for Željezničar.[1]
He was one of the best Yugoslav defenders in the 1960s. In 1963, he started playing for the first team and very soon he became a candidate for the Yugoslavia national team. He had collected three caps before he broke a leg in 1966. He never managed to reach the same level of play he was showing before the injury.
Zemko made his debut for Yugoslavia in a September 1965 friendly match away against the Soviet Union and earned a total of 3 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was an October 1965 World Cup qualification match away against France.[2]
After having coached several clubs in Serbia, he was coaching youth teams at FK Bačka 1901.