Josip Zemko (13 March 1946 — 11 April 2017) was a Yugoslav

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manager and player.

Club career

Zemko played a total of 74 matches for Željezničar.

International career

He was one of the best Yugoslav defenders in the 1960s. In 1963, he started playing for the first team and very soon he became a candidate for the Yugoslavia national team. He had collected three

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before he broke a leg in 1966. He never managed to reach the same level of play he was showing before the injury. Zemko made his debut for

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in a September 1965

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away against the

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and earned a total of 3 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was an October 1965 World Cup qualification match away against

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Managerial career

After having coached several clubs in

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, he was coaching youth teams at

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