Željko Čajkovski
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| Date of birth | 5 May 1925 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth |
Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 11 November 2016 (aged 91) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Munich, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1942–1945 |
HAŠK Zagreb | ||||||||||||||||
| 1946–1956 | Dinamo Zagreb | 194 | (78) | ||||||||||||||
| 1956–1958 | Werder Bremen | 33 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
| 1958–1960 | 1. FC Lichtenfels (p/m) | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1947–1951 | Yugoslavia | 19 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1964–1966 |
SpVgg Fürth | ||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1969 | Borussia Neunkirchen | ||||||||||||||||
| 1971–1974 | SSV Ulm | ||||||||||||||||
| 1974 |
VfR Heilbronn | ||||||||||||||||
| 1975 | Wacker 04 Berlin | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Željko Čajkovski (5 May 1925 – 11 November 2016) was a Croatian
Playing career
Club
At club level he played from 1942 for HAŠK Zagreb and, after the dissolution of the club, from 1945 onward for Dinamo Zagreb. With Dinamo he won the championship titles of 1950 and 1954 as well as the 1951 cup tournament. In 1956 he joined the German first division club Werder Bremen for two seasons. According to some sources he was amongst the ranks of 1. FC Nürnberg in the 1958–59 season. In the 1959–60 season, he served as player-manager of the northern Bavarian third division side 1. FC Lichtenfels, which he led to the Bavarian amateur championship.
International
With the
Managerial career
Later he served as a coach for the German second division clubs
Death
Čajkovski died in Munich, aged 91.[3] He was reputed to be the oldest living Dinamo player at the time of his death after Stojan Osojnak died in 2016.[4]
References
- ^ "Željko Čajkovski". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
- ^ IN MEMORIAM - ŽELJKO ČAJKOVSKI Archived 11 March 2023 at the Wayback Machine - GNK Dinamo (in Croatian)
- ^ U 93. GODINI ŽIVOTA UMRO STOJAN OSOJNAK Archived 11 March 2023 at the Wayback Machine - GNK Dinamo (in Croatian)
External links
- Željko Čajkovski at National-Football-Teams.com
- Željko Čajkovski at WorldFootball.net
- Željko Čajkovski at fussballdaten.de (in German)
- Željko Čajkovski at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
- Robert Bajruši (3 December 2003). "U Dinamu sam zarađivao švercajući najlonke" [I earned a living in Dinamo peddling nylons] (in Croatian). Nacional (weekly). Archived from the original on 23 May 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
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