Maksimilijan Mihelčič

Maksimilijan "Maks" Mihelčič (Serbian spelling - Максимилијан Михелчић; 29 July 1905 – 25 March 1958) was a Slovenian[2][3] football goalkeeper who represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia national team at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Maksimilijan Mihelčič
Personal information
Full name Maksimilijan Mihelčič
Date of birth (1905-07-29)29 July 1905
Place of birth Laibach, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 25 March 1958(1958-03-25) (aged 52)[1]
Place of death Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1922–1924 ŽŠK Hermes
1924–1934 HŠK Građanski Zagreb 119 (0)
1934–1938 HŠK Šparta
International career
1925–1931 Yugoslavia 18 (0)
Managerial career
1945–1947 Dinamo Zagreb (youth)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

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He began to play in the Ljubljana ŽŠK Hermes, and is celebrated on the goal HŠK Građanski Zagreb in whose jersey has won state championships 1926 and 1928. As keeper of the Civil, succeeded in the club and the team celebrated Dragutin "Karlek" Friedrich, and with Vrđuka, was the third major Yugoslavia national team goalkeeper to 1930. That year he skipped the first World Cup in Uruguay due to political issues.[2] When in 1934 he left Građanski, defended the goal Spartak club in Zagreb appointees Power Station.

International career

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Like other Slovenian footballer after Stanko Tavčar, he was in the Yugoslavia national team, and was part of Yugoslavia's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.[4] He played 18 games for the Yugoslavia national team: the first one on 28 October 1925 against Czechoslovakia and the last one on 4 October 1931 against Bulgaria at the Balkan Cup.

Mihelčič was a driver by profession, and after World War II was as a youth coach for Dinamo Zagreb.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Joža Lovec". Croatian Olympic Committee. 19 May 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  2. ^ a b Toni Gruden (31 March 2010). "1930: Urugvajske žoge, darilo policista in slavje "enorokega"" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenia. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
  3. ^ Bojan Purić (2 February 2002). "Uoči SP: Slovenija gre naprej!". sportnet.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 8 July 2010.
  4. ^ "Maksimilijan Mihelčič". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  5. ^ ŽIVLJENJEPISI SLOVENCEV V HRVAŠKEM ŠPORTU. slovenci-zagreb.hr (2014). p. 41
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