Zdenko Kobeščak

Zdenko Kobeščak
Personal information
Date of birth	3 December 1943 (age 81)
Place of birth	Zagreb, Croatia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1957–1962	Dinamo Zagreb
Senior career*
Years	Team
1962–1967	Dinamo Zagreb
1967	NK Zagreb
1968–1971	Maribor
1971–1972	Rennes
1972–1973	ÉDS Montluçon
International career
1963–1964	Yugoslavia
Managerial career
1985	Dinamo Zagreb
1991–1992	Dinamo Zagreb
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Zdenko Kobeščak (born 3 December 1943) is a Croatian retired football player. He earned two caps for Yugoslavia in the 1960s.

Playing career

Club

Kobeščak made his official debut for Dinamo Zagreb in August 1962 against Partizan Belgrade, but his career at Dinamo was hampered by injuries. He played in both legs of the lost 1963 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final against Valencia but did not feature in Dinamo's 1967 Fairs Cup win. He played a total of 191 games for the club.^[1]

International

He made his debut for Yugoslavia in an October 1963 friendly match away against Romania and earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals. His second and final international was a November 1964 friendly against the Soviet Union.^[2]

Managerial career

He was an assistant coach to Mirko Jozić at the 1990 UEFA European Under-16 Championship.^[3]

References

^ ROĐENDAN ZDENKA KOBEŠĆAKA – GNK Dinamo (in Croatian)
^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
^ D. Kolašinac, Tempo (13 May 1990), Od sutra naši fudbaleri-kadeti učestvuju na Evropskom prvenstvu u DR Nemačkoj

External links

Zdenko Kobeščak at WorldFootball.net
Zdenko Kobeščak at National-Football-Teams.com
Zdenko Kobeščak at EU-Football.info
Zdenko Kobeščak at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)

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[1] ROĐENDAN ZDENKA KOBEŠĆAKA – GNK Dinamo (in Croatian)

[2] "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 24 September 2022.

[Tempo-3] D. Kolašinac, Tempo (13 May 1990), Od sutra naši fudbaleri-kadeti učestvuju na Evropskom prvenstvu u DR Nemačkoj

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1990s	Mirko Novosel (1991) Franjo Frntić (1992) Miljenko Finderle (1993) Herman Vukušić (1994) Rudolf Carek, Nikola Turk (1995) Milan Blašković, Marijan Malović (1996) Filip Ćurković, Zdravko Kovačević (1997) Josip Marić, Boris Volščanšek (1998) Vladimir Findak, Katica Ileš (1999)
2000s	Miloš Marković, Matija Ljubek (2000) Zlatko Šimenc, Slavko Podgorelec (2001) Žarko Dolinar, Krešimir Ćosić, Dražen Petrović (2002) Milan Antolković, Vicko Lučić (2003) Miro Mihovilović, Antun Vrdoljak (2004) Irislav Dolenec, Vicko Šoljan (2005) Nikola Jurković, Stjepan Korbar, Veljko Rogošić (2006) Miroslav Blažević, Ante Pavlović, Žarko Susić (2007) Ivo Cipci, Željko Mataja, Josip Modrić (2008) Zdravko Baršnik, Ivan Janjić, Renato Vučetić (2009)
2010s	Josip Čorak, Darko Dujmović, Velimir Kljaić (2010) Ivan Fattorini, Dragan Milanović, Vinko Tomljanović (2011) Ivan Ivančić, Marinko Mikulandra, Ratko Rudić (2012) Jozo Alebić, Erna Hawelka Rađenović, Fredi Kramer (2013) Vinko Bajrović, Anto Ćavar, Giuseppe Giergia (2014) Gojko Arneri, Đurđica Bjedov, Janko Goleš (2015) Ivo Vidović^, Jelica Pavličić-Štefančić, Luciano Sušanj (2016) Zdenko Zorko, Zdravko Hebel^, Zina Urlić (2017) Vladimir Janković, Milka Babović, Mate Parlov^* (2018) Zdenko Kobeščak, Duško Antunović^*, Zdravko Malić (2019)
2020s	Ante Kostelić, Petar Skansi, Ivo Trumbić (2020) Željko Klarić, Mihovil Nakić, Đurđa Fočić-Šourek (2021) Nikola Plećaš, Boško Lozica, Edo Pezzi (2022)
^* – posthumously