Ivan Jazbinšek
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Ivan "Oskar" Jazbinšek (9 August 1914 – 28 June 1996) was a Croatian and Yugoslav
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of Slovenian descent, who played as a defender.


Club career

Jazbinšek started his career with
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sides, ŠK Meteor and ŠK Policijski. After a short stint at
BSK Beograd 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 ...
, he moved to top club
HŠK Građanski Zagreb HŠK Građanski (alternatively spelled ''Gradjanski'' or ''Gradanski''), also known as 1. HŠK Građanski or fully ''Prvi hrvatski građanski športski klub'' (), was a Croatian football club established in Zagreb in 1911 and dissolved in 1945. Th ...
in 1935. With Građanski he won the 1937 and 1940
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) ...
season, the 1943
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and the 1948 Yugoslav Federal League. He stayed with Građanski until its disbanding by the communist regime in 1945. He later played for Metalac Zagreb and
Dinamo Zagreb Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb (), commonly referred to as simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Cr ...
.


International career

Jazbinšek played seven times for the
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, making his debut for them in an April 1938 World Cup qualification match against
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. After its demise, he played eighteen matches for the
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, a
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-era
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of
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. He was also part of Yugoslavia's squad for the football tournament at the
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, but he did not play in any matches. His final international was an April 1944
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against
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.


Managerial career

After his playing career he became a manager at
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. He then moved on to become Dinamo's coach and won the Yugoslav Federal League in 1954. In 1971, he was appointed the head coach of
Toronto Croatia C.N.S.C. Toronto Croatia (Croatian National Sports Club Toronto Croatia) is a Canadian soccer team based in Toronto, Ontario, that plays in the Supergroup Open Division in the Canadian Academy of Football. The team's colours are red, white and b ...
in the
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, where he led Toronto to a NSL Championship and a Canadian Open Cup.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jazbinsek, Ivan 1914 births 1996 deaths Footballers from Zagreb People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia Croatian people of Slovenian descent Men's association football defenders Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Croatian men's footballers Croatia men's international footballers Dual internationalists (men's football) OFK Beograd players HŠK Građanski Zagreb players GNK Dinamo Zagreb players Yugoslav First League players Yugoslav football managers NK Zagreb managers GNK Dinamo Zagreb managers Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. managers Toronto Croatia coaches Canadian National Soccer League coaches Yugoslav expatriate football managers Expatriate soccer coaches in Canada Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Canada Expatriate football managers in Israel Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Israel Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery