Branko Buljević (born 6 September 1947) is a former

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

player. Born in Croatia, he was a member of

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

1974 World Cup The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the 10th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the ...

squad in West Germany and represented Australia 30 times in total between 1972 and 1975.

Playing career

Buljević began his club career with

OFK Belgrade OFK Beograd ( sr-Cyrl, ОФК Београд – Омладински фудбалски клуб Београд, English: ''Belgrade Youth Football Club''), also known in English as OFK Belgrade and currently referred to as OFK Beograd Mozzart ...

in the

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League ( Bosnian: Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Прва савезна лига у фудбалу, Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, , , , , ) was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) ...

. He emigrated to Australia, where Buljević spent nine seasons playing for

Footscray JUST Footscray Jugoslav United Soccer Team, commonly referred to as J.U.S.T, Footscray or simply JUST, was an association football club from Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne, Australia. The club was established by Yugoslavs, Yugoslav migrants in 1950, ...

, then moving on to play for

Heidelberg United Heidelberg United Alexander Football Club (founded as Alexander the Great-Melbourne Soccer Club) established in 1958 is a football (soccer) club based in the northern Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg West, Victoria, Australia. The team currently ...

and

South Melbourne FC South Melbourne Football Club is an Australian semi-professional Association football, soccer club based in suburb of Albert Park, Victoria, Albert Park, in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The club currently competes in the National P ...

respectively. He returned to Footscray JUST for one more season before retiring in 1985. After being naturalised, Buljevic made his debut for Australia in 1972. He made 30 appearances for the ''Socceroos'', 22 of them in full internationals.

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* 1947 births Living people Footballers from Split, Croatia Australian people of Croatian descent Yugoslav emigrants to Australia Naturalised soccer players of Australia Men's association football forwards Yugoslav men's footballers Australian men's soccer players Australia men's international soccer players 1974 FIFA World Cup players OFK Beograd players Footscray JUST players Heidelberg United FC players South Melbourne FC players Yugoslav First League players National Soccer League (Australia) players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-footy-forward-stub