Frane Matošić

Frane Matošić
Personal information
Date of birth (1918-11-25)25 November 1918
Place of birth Split, State of Slovenes,
Croats and Serbs
Date of death 29 October 2007(2007-10-29) (aged 88)
Place of death Split, Croatia
Playing position Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1935–1938 Hajduk Split 73 (54)
1938–1939 BSK Belgrade 14 (9)
1940–1941 Hajduk Split 8 (13)
1943 AC Bologna 28 (13)
1944–1955 Hajduk Split 196 (122)
National team
1938–1953 Yugoslavia 16 (6)
Teams managed
1956–1958 Hajduk Split
1959–1961 RNK Split
1961–1963 Tunisia
1963–1964 RNK Split
1965 Hajduk Split
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Frane Matošić (25 November 1918 – 29 October 2007) was a Croatian football player and coach. Born in Split, he played at the position of striker. He is regarded as one of Hajduk Split's greatest players ever where he is the all-time leading goalscorer.

Player career

Club career

Matošić started to play football with HNK Hajduk from Split. In his very first game for Hajduk in 1935 against Slavija from Sarajevo, Matošić scored two goals. He played 16 seasons for Hajduk. His older brother Jozo Matošić was also football player with whom he was a teammate at Hajduk.

Frane Matošić in a mural in Split

While serving the obligatory military service in the season 1939, he played for the BSK from Belgrade. Next season, season 1939/40, he returned to Hajduk. After Hajduk's management suspending the work of Hajduk in 1941, he went abroad to play for Bologna F.C. 1909, played in season of 1942/43. When the information about restoring of Hajduk's work came to Frane Matošić, he returned to Croatia and smuggled himself on the free territory. There he joined Hajduk, that restarted its work on the free, Allied-controlled part of Croatia, on the island of Vis. Since then, Matošić was playing the games for Hajduk (that was playing friendly games against Allied teams on the Mediterranean). After the war Matošić as a team captain refused Josip Broz Tito's offer of transferring Hajduk to Belgrade and renaming it into "Partizan". All together, Matošić played 739 games for Hajduk and scored impressive 729 goals.

National team career

Matošić was a long time Yugoslav national team player. He played 16 games and scored 6 goals for Yugoslavia. His last game was in 1953, and in that game he also scored a goal.

Coach career

After the ending of career as player, he turned to coaching career. He was the coach of his Hajduk (few years after his brother Jozo was coaching it), he was also the coach of Tunisian football team and the coach of RNK Split.

Death

Frane Matošić died in Split on the anniversary of Hajduk's historical victory over Red Star Belgrade in 1950.

Honours

Player

Hajduk Split
Yugoslavia

Manager

RNK Split
Tunisia

Individual

Records

References

  1. 1 2 "Croatia - Final Tables". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 18 December 2008. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  2. ↑ "Hajduku priznata i 18. titula". Sportnet.hr. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
Nationality Name Period Matches Won Drawn Lost Win% Achievements
Tunisia Rachid Turki 1956–1957 2 2 0 0 100.00%
Tunisia
Tunisia
Algeria		 Hechmi Cherif
Larbi Soudani
Habib Draoua		 1957–1960 15 7 2 6 46.67%
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milan Kristić 1960–1961 23 5 4 14 21.74% Qualification to 1960 Summer Olympics
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Frane Matošić 1961–1962 6 1 2 3 16.67% 1962 African Cup of Nations Third Place
France André Gérard 1963–1965 34 15 9 10 44.12% 1st, gold medalist(s) 1963 Arab Nations Cup Champions
Tunisia Mokhtar Ben Nacef 1965–1968 15 5 8 2 33.33% 1965 African Cup of Nations Runners-up
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Radojica Radojičić 1968–1970 9 2 3 4 22.22%
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Sereta Begovic 1969 5 0 4 1 0.00%
Tunisia Ameur Hizem 1970–1974 33 16 6 11 48.48% 1st, gold medalist(s) 1973 Palestine Cup of Nations Champions
Hungary André Nagy 1974–1975 10 4 1 5 40.00%
Tunisia Abdelmajid Chetali 1975–1978 52 18 18 16 34.61% 1978 African Cup of Nations Fourth Place
Qualification to 1978 FIFA World Cup
Tunisia Ameur Hizem 1978–1979 3 1 1 1 33.33%
Tunisia Hmid Dhib 1979–1980 14 3 3 5 21.43%
Poland Ryszard Kulesza 1981–1983 25 10 5 10 40.00%
Tunisia Youssef Zouaoui 1984–1986 26 13 3 8 54.16%
France Jean Vincent 1986–1987 10 1 2 7 10.00%
Tunisia Taoufik Ben Othman 1987–1988 16 4 3 9 25.00% Qualification to 1988 Summer Olympics
Poland Antoni Piechniczek 1988 9 3 3 3 33.33%
Tunisia Mokhtar Tlili 1988–1989 14 3 4 7 21.43%
Poland Antoni Piechniczek 1989 8 2 2 4 25.00%
Tunisia Mrad Mahjoub 1990–1993 26 8 13 5 30.77%
Tunisia Youssef Zouaoui 1993-1994 13 4 6 3 30.77%
Poland Henryk Kasperczak 1994–1998 59 30 11 18 50.84% 1996 African Cup of Nations Runners-up
Qualification to 1996 Summer Olympics
Qualification to 1998 FIFA World Cup
Italy Francesco Scoglio 1998–2001 32 19 8 5 59.73% 2000 African Cup of Nations Fourth Place
Germany Eckhard Krautzun 2001 7 4 2 1 57.14% Qualification to 2002 FIFA World Cup
France Henri Michel 2001–2002 6 2 2 2 33.33%
Tunisia Ammar Souayah 2002 6 0 3 3 0.00%
France Roger Lemerre 2002–2008 67 40 15 12 59.70% 2004 African Cup of Nations Champions
Qualification to 2004 Summer Olympics
Qualification to 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup
Qualification to 2006 FIFA World Cup
Portugal Humberto Coelho 2008–2009 15 5 4 3 33.33%
Tunisia Faouzi Benzarti 2009–2010 4 0 3 1 0.00%
France Bertrand Marchand 2010 6 3 1 2 50.00%
Tunisia Sami Trabelsi 2010–2013 32 13 9 10 40.63% 2011 African Nations Championship Champions
Tunisia Nabil Maâloul 2013 7 2 3 2 28.57%
Netherlands Ruud Krol 2013 2 0 1 1 0.00%
Belgium Georges Leekens 2014–2015 19 7 8 4 36.84%
Poland Henryk Kasperczak 2015–2017 26 12 5 10 46.15%
Tunisia Nabil Maâloul 2017–2018 13 6 4 3 46.15% Qualification to 2018 FIFA World Cup
Tunisia Faouzi Benzarti 2018– 3 3 0 0 100.00%
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