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Željko Čajkovski

1925 - 2016

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Željko Čajkovski (5 May 1925 – 11 November 2016) was a Croatian and Yugoslav football player and coach, who played as a forward. A prolific goalscorer, Čajkovski spent most of his career with his hometown club Dinamo Zagreb in the 1940s and 1950s, helping them win two championships of Yugoslavia and one Yugoslav cup. During this period he also scored 12 goals in 19 appearances for the national team, with whom he won the silver medal at the 1948 Olympic tournament in London and played at the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. After leaving Dinamo, he spent two more seasons at the German club Werder Bremen before retiring. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Željko Čajkovski is the 1,078th most popular soccer player (up from 1,217th in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Croatia (up from 175th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Croatian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Željko Čajkovski ranks 1,078 out of 21,273. Before him are Akira Nishino, Michael Rummenigge, Vladimir Durković, Sadio Mané, Karl Rappan, and Luis Regueiro. After him are Alexis Sánchez, Preguinho, André Onana, Harald Nielsen, Marek Hamšík, and Esteban Cambiasso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Željko Čajkovski ranks 183. Before him are Emilio Eduardo Massera, Uzi Narkiss, Hugo Koblet, Jean Raspail, Rosario Castellanos, and Mai Zetterling. After him are Scott Carpenter, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Mario Merz, Klaus Roth, Mike Connors, and José Napoleón Duarte. Among people deceased in 2016, Željko Čajkovski ranks 188. Before him are Louis Pilot, Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Elizabeth Roemer, Hassan Al-Turabi, Papa Wemba, and Zdravko Tolimir. After him are Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Jadranka Stojaković, Vanity, Guido Westerwelle, and Silvana Pampanini.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Željko Čajkovski ranks 142 out of 700. Before him are Ante Trumbić (1864), Maximianus of Ravenna (499), Mirko Jozić (1940), Petar Nadoveza (1942), Jakov Gotovac (1895), and Josip Runjanin (1821). After him are Ivo Lola Ribar (1916), Petar Preradović (1818), Andrea Schiavone (1510), Duje Bonačić (1929), Franjo Kuharić (1919), and Pietro I Candiano (842).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Croatia

Among soccer players born in Croatia, Željko Čajkovski ranks 18. Before him are Ivan Perišić (1989), Slaven Bilić (1968), Igor Tudor (1978), Bernard Vukas (1927), Mirko Jozić (1940), and Petar Nadoveza (1942). After him are Ante Žanetić (1936), Robert Jarni (1968), Petar Radaković (1937), Ivica Horvat (1926), Alen Bokšić (1970), and Ivica Vastić (1969).

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