Petar Manola

Petar Manola
Personal information
Full name	Petar Manola
Date of birth	28 February 1918
Place of birth	Jajce, Austro-Hungary
Date of death	1 January 2004 (aged 85)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1931–1936	Slavija Sarajevo
1936–1942	BSK Belgrade
1942–1947	Lazio
1946–1947	Lyon
1947–1948	Red Star Paris
1948–1949	Napoli
1949–1950	Cavese 1919
1950–1951	Benevento
1951–1956	Turris 1944
National team
1939–1941	Kingdom of Yugoslavia
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Petar Manola (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Манола; born 28 February 1918 – 2004) was a Bosnian Serb footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career[]

Born in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he started his career in Slavija Sarajevo where he played between 1931 and 1936 but, his greatest success was achieved while playing in BSK Beograd, between 1936 and 1942, and made part of the memorable midfield line formed with Prvoslav Dragičević and Gustav Lechner, that won the Yugoslav First League in 1939. After the start of the World War II, he left Yugoslavia and continued his career in Lazio Rome playing in Italian Serie A.^[1] Between January 1947 and summer 1948 he played in France, first in Second Division Olympique Lyonnais, and then in Ligue 1 famous club Red Star Paris. Afterwards, he returned to Italy where he played in S.S.C. Napoli, in the 1948–49 season, and then represented lower leagues clubs like S.S. Cavese 1919, Benevento Calcio and Turris 1944. He ended his playing career in 1956.^[2]