Aleksandar Živković (footballer, born 1912)

Aleksandar Živković (25 December 1912^[1] in Orašje – 25 February 2000 in Zagreb) was a Croatian footballer. Domestically, he played for Croatian clubs Concordia Zagreb and Građanski Zagreb, while abroad he played for Grasshopper Club Zürich and RCF Paris, CA Paris and FC Sochaux-Montbéliard.^{[citation needed]}

He was one of the top goalscorers in the Royal Yugoslavian championship with 34 goals from 1929 to 1935,^[2] Živković was capped 15 times for the Yugoslavian national team and once for the Croatian national team in 1940.

Živković 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. Živković was the top scorer at the 1932 Balkan Cup, with five goals.^[3]

During the Second World War, Živković 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, aged 87, and was interred in Mirogoj cemetery.^[4]

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• Nogometni leksikon (2004, in Croatian)
• Barreaud, Marc (1998). Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932–1997). L'Harmattan, Paris. ISBN 2-7384-6608-7.