Ferante Colnago

Ferante Colnago
Personal information
Full name	Ferante Colnago
Date of birth	11 July 1907
Place of birth	Split, Austro-Hungary
Date of death	15 May 1969 (aged 61)
Place of death	Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1916–1923	Hajduk Split
Senior career*
Years	Team
1923–1926	Concordia Zagreb
1926–1929	Soko Beograd
1929–1931	Olympique Marseille
1931–1938	Rapid București
National team
1929	Kingdom of Yugoslavia
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Ferante Colnago (11 July 1907 in Split – 15 May 1969 in Belgrade) was a Croatian football player. He has one cap for the Yugoslav national team.

He was sometimes referred to as Ferante Kolnago which is the Serbian spelling.

Playing mostly as a central defender he started to play in the youth teams of HNK Hajduk Split but failed to debut in the first team. Afterwards, he moved to Zagreb where he signed with HŠK Concordia. It was while he was playing with SK Soko from Belgrade that he played his only match for the Yugoslav national team. It was on 19 May 1929 in Paris that Yugoslavia had achieved its first win over the "tricolor" by 3-1 and Ferante's brilliant performance on the match did not pass unnoticed, having earned him a call to join, together with Ivica Bek, Olympique de Marseille, where he would play two seasons. Between 1931 and 1938 he played with Rapid București in Romania.

After a heavy injury, he retired and returned to Belgrade where he began working as a bank employee.

External sources[]

Profile at Reprezentacija.rs.

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