Antun Herceg

Antun Herceg (Serbian Cyrillic: Aнтун Xepцeг; born November 9, 1927 in Inđija, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a former Serbian football player.

Club career[]

He started playing for lower league FK Sloga Novi Sad, that would latter be renamed back to FK Vojvodina, where he played until 1951, when he, as a talented youngster, signed with Belgrade giants FK Partizan. He played there a total of eight seasons, until 1958, having played 313 matches and scored 101 goals, of which 138 were league matches and 38 league goals. He also won 3 Yugoslav Cup with Partizan (1952, 1954, 1957).

National team[]

Beside the four matches and two goals scored for the Yugoslavia B team, between 1954 and 1956, he played 12 matches and scored twice for the Yugoslavia national football team. His debut was on September 3, 1950 in a friendly match against Sweden played in Stockholm where, playing as a left-winger, scored the decisive goal that gave another win to Yugoslavia (2-1 win). His fairway match was played in Athens on May 5, 1957, against Greece, having ended with a goalless draw in which he was decisive having played as left-back in a defensive line formed together with Vladimir Beara and Tomislav Crnković.

Private life[]

After leaving Partizan, he continued playing for some time in West Germany, where after retiring, continued living there as a dentist.

External sources[]

Antun Herceg at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)

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