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Vinko Cuzzi (11 July 1940 – 8 December 2011) was a Croatian
footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...
who played as
right back In the sport of association football, a defender is an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categ ...
or libero.


Playing career


Club

Cuzzi was the
Hajduk Split Hrvatski Nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Split, that competes in the Croatian First League, the top tier in Croatian football. Since 1979, the club's home ...
squad
captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader or highest rank officer of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police depa ...
for several years, receiving the trophy when Hajduk won the 1967
Yugoslav Cup The Yugoslav Cup (; ; , ), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup (; , and between 1947 and 1991 as the Marshal Tito Cup (; ; ; ), was one of two major association football, football competitions in Socialist Federal Re ...
, which was also their first triumph in that competition.


International

He made his debut for
Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...
in a September 1965
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away against the
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and earned a total of 8 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a June 1966 friendly away against
West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ...
.


Post-playing career

After his playing career, he worked as a lawyer and later as a judge in the
county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
court of Split. He was also a long time member of Hajduk's executive board as well as the president of its assembly from 1994 to 1996.


Personal life

His son Ivo Cuzzi was also a footballer.


Honours

Hajduk Split *
Yugoslav Cup The Yugoslav Cup (; ; , ), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup (; , and between 1947 and 1991 as the Marshal Tito Cup (; ; ; ), was one of two major association football, football competitions in Socialist Federal Re ...
: 1966–67


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* * 1940 births 2011 deaths Footballers from Split, Croatia Dalmatian Italians Men's association football defenders Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers HNK Hajduk Split players FC Lausanne-Sport players Yugoslav First League players Swiss Super League players Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Burials at Lovrinac Cemetery {{Croatia-footy-defender-stub