Božidar Senčar (1927–1987) was a Croatian football midfielder who started playing for his hometown club Dinamo Zagreb in Yugoslav First League in 1946.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 28 September 1927 | ||
| Place of birth | Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | ||
| Date of death | 27 June 1987 (aged 59) | ||
| Place of death | Luxembourg | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Concordia Zagreb | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1945–1947 | Dinamo Zagreb | 24 | (11) |
| 1947–1950 | Partizan | 23 | (7) |
| 1951–1952 | Dinamo Zagreb | 32 | (18) |
| 1952–1954 | Hajduk Split | 23 | (8) |
| 1954–1955 | NK Zagreb | 11 | (3) |
| 1956–1957 | Bayern Munich | 11 | (4) |
| 1957–1958 | NAC | 3 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 1949–1951 | Yugoslavia | 3 | (1) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Club career
editAfter spending a season and a half with Dinamo he was picked up by Partizan during the 1947–48 season where he spent the following three seasons, helping them win the Yugoslav championship in 1949. In 1950, he returned to Dinamo and won the Yugoslav Cup in 1951. In 1952, he left Dinamo again, this time to join their biggest Croatian rivals, Hajduk Split, with whom he reached the Yugoslav Cup final in 1953 (which Hajduk lost to BSK Belgrade 2–0). After two seasons at Hajduk, Senčar returned to Zagreb and joined NK Zagreb where he played a single season before joining German giants Bayern Munich for the 1956–57 season. His last stop was at NAC Breda where he had only three appearances in the last season of his professional career, before retiring in 1958.
International career
editSenčar made his debut for Yugoslavia in a 1950 World Cup qualifier against Israel on 21 August 1949 in Belgrade which Yugoslavia won 6–0. Senčar scored his only international goal in the 44th minute after a hat-trick by Miloš Pajević. He later appeared at the away game against Israel in September 1949, but was subsequently dropped from the squad led by Milorad Arsenijević to the 1950 World Cup. After the World Cup, he earned one more cap in a friendly against Italy in May 1951.[1]
Honours
edit- Yugoslav First League
- Yugoslav Cup
- Winner (1): 1951 (with Dinamo Zagreb)
- Runner-up (1): 1953 (with Hajduk Split)
References
edit- ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
External links
edit- Božidar Senčar at WorldFootball.net
- Božidar Senčar at National-Football-Teams.com
- Božidar Senčar at EU-Football.info
- Božidar Senčar at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
- Božidar Senčar at Povijest Dinama at the Wayback Machine (archived 3 August 2015) (in Croatian)
