Josip Zemko (13 March 1946 — 11 April 2017) was a Yugoslav football manager and player.
Club career
Zemko played a total of 74 matches for Željezničar.[1]
International career
He was one of the best Yugoslav defenders in the 1960s. In 1963, he started playing for the first team and very soon he became a candidate for the Yugoslavia national team. He had collected three caps before he broke a leg in 1966. He never managed to reach the same level of play he was showing before the injury.
Zemko made his debut for Yugoslavia in a September 1965 friendly match away against the Soviet Union and earned a total of 3 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was an October 1965 World Cup qualification match away against France.[2]
Managerial career
After having coached several clubs in Serbia, he was coaching youth teams at FK Bačka 1901.
References
- ^ U 71. godini preminuo bivši fudbaler Želje Josip Zemko - FK Željezničar (in Bosnian)
- ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
External links
- Josip Zemko at National-Football-Teams.com
- Josip Zemko at EU-Football.info
- Josip Zemko at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
- Profile and career story at FK Bačka 1901 official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 11 July 2011)
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