Florijan Matekalo

Florijan Matekalo

Personal information
Full name	Florijan Matekalo
Date of birth	(1920-04-25)25 April 1920
Place of birth	Jajce, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Date of death	20 May 1995(1995-05-20) (aged 75)
Place of death	Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1933–1936	Elektrobosna Jajce
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1936–1939	Slavija Sarajevo
1939–1945	Građanski Zagreb	51	(21)
1946–1947	Partizan	8	(3)
International career
1940	Banovina of Croatia	4	(1)
1940	Yugoslavia	1	(0)
Managerial career
1957	Partizan
1962	Hajduk Split
1964	Partizan
1979	Partizan
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Florijan Matekalo (Croatian pronunciation: [flǒrijaːn matěːkalo];^[1][2] 25 April 1920 – 20 May 1995) was a footballer who played international football for both Yugoslavia and Croatia.^[3]

He scored the first goal in the history of the Croatia national team^[4] and the first goal ever for FK Partizan.^[5]

International career

Matekalo debuted for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia's national team (Beli Orlovi) in a November 1940 friendly match against Nazi Germany and concurrently played all four matches for the Banovina of Croatia's national team, which represented the Croatian statelet within the kingdom.^[6]

References

1. "Flòrijān". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018. Flòrijān
2. "Máte". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018. Matékalo
3. "Players Appearing for Two or More Countries". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 3 August 2008. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
4. "Jutarnji article". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
5. Mozzart article
6. "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 20 October 2022.

External links

• Florijan Matekalo at WorldFootball.net
• Florijan Matekalo at National-Football-Teams.com
• Florijan Matekalo at EU-Football.info
• Florijan Matekalo at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)