Rudolf Belin
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Full name | Rudolf Belin | ||||||||||||
Date of birth | 4 November 1942 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth | Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia | ||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||
NK Jedinstvo Zagreb | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||
1959–1970 | Dinamo Zagreb | 191 | (31) | ||||||||||
1970–1972 | Beerschot VAC | 32 | (1) | ||||||||||
Total | 223 | (32) | |||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||
1963–1969 | Yugoslavia | 29 | (6) | ||||||||||
Teams managed | |||||||||||||
1977–1978 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||||||||||||
1983 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||||||||||||
1989 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||||||||||||
1998 | Toronto Croatia | ||||||||||||
2001 | Iraq | ||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Rudolf Belin (born 4 November 1942) is a Croatian former football manager and player.
Belin started his career with Dinamo Zagreb in 1960, where he won the Yugoslav Cup three times and the UEFA Cup in 1967, beating the English side Leeds United and went on to make 410 appearances for the club until 1970, when he moved to Beerschot VAC in Belgium and he spent two years. He was voted Croatia’s 36th footballer of the century in 2000 chosen by Večernji List. After retiring, he graduated from the Physical Education School at the University of Zagreb, becoming a coach, while he also spent a considerable time acting as Director of Dinamo's Youth Football Academy and also coached Toronto Croatia in Canada, during 1998.[1]
On the national level he played for Yugoslavia, scoring 6 goals in 29 matches and was a participant at the 1968 European Championship.
Belin coached the Iraq national team in 2001.
References[]
- ^ "(VIDEO) LEGENDA NAD LEGENDAMA Rudi Belin, igrač i trener Dinama bio je obožavan". Sportska revija (in Croatian). 20 March 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
External links[]
- Rudolf Belin at the International Olympic Committee
- Rudolf Belin at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Serbia national football team website (in Serbian)
- 1942 births
- Croatian footballers
- Yugoslav footballers
- Yugoslavia international footballers
- Olympic footballers of Yugoslavia
- Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- UEFA Euro 1968 players
- Yugoslav First League players
- Belgian First Division A players
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb players
- K. Beerschot V.A.C. players
- Croatian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Belgium
- Yugoslav football managers
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb managers
- Sportspeople from Zagreb
- Living people
- Canadian Professional Soccer League (1998-2005) managers
- Toronto Croatia managers
- Association football defenders
- Croatian football managers
- Croatian expatriate football managers
- Croatian football defender stubs