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Aleksandar Živkovic

1912 – 2000

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Aleksandar Živkovic was a Croatian footballer. Domestically he played for Croatian clubs Concordia Zagreb and Gradanski Zagreb while abroad he played for Grasshopper Club Zürich and RCF Paris, CA Paris and FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. One of the top goalscorers in the Royal Yugoslavian championship with 34 goals from 1929–35, Živkovic was capped 15 times for the Yugoslavian national team and once for the Croatian national team in 1940. Živkovic was one of seven Croatian players to boycott the Yugoslavian national team at the 1930 FIFA World Cup after the Football Association of Yugoslavia was moved from Zagreb to Belgrade. Živkovic was the top scorer at the 1932 Balkan Cup, with five goals. During the Second World War, Živkovic had served as a diplomat in the Independent State of Croatia's embassies in Berlin and Budapest. In 1945, after the war, he migrated to South Africa, where he lived until 1993, when he moved back to the newly independent Republic of Croatia. He died in Zagreb in 2000 at age 87.

Name
Aleksandar Živkovic
Locality
Zagreb, Croația
Born
25 decembrie 1912
Died
25 februarie 2000
Age
87 years
From
Orašje, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Location
Groblje Mirogoj ↗

Cemetery information

Cemetery
Groblje Mirogoj
Locality
Zagreb
Country
Croația
Public figure
No

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