Zvonko Bego (19 December 1940 – 13 August 2018) was a Yugoslav

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. He spent most of his career with Croatian side

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 ...

Club career

Bego made his debut for Hajduk in an early 1957 cup match against Lokomotiva and scored 173 goals in 375 games for the club. He moved abroad to play for

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Bayer Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen, officially known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH () and commonly known as Bayer Leverkusen or simply Leverkusen, is a German professional football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It competes in the B ...

and Austria Salzburg before returning to Yugoslavia in 1971 and finish his career at Junak Sinj and Uskok Klis.

International career

He made his debut for

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in a November 1961

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against

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and earned a total of 6 caps scoring 2 goals. His final international was a December 1961 friendly against

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. He was also part of the Yugoslavian side which won gold at the

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, but he did not play in any matches.

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* * 1940 births 2018 deaths Footballers from Split, Croatia Men's association football midfielders Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers Olympic medalists in football Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia Olympic gold medalists for Yugoslavia Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics HNK Hajduk Split players FC Twente players Bayer 04 Leverkusen players FC Red Bull Salzburg players NK Junak Sinj players NK Uskok players Yugoslav First League players Eredivisie players 2. Bundesliga players Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in West Germany Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in West Germany Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Austria Burials at Lovrinac Cemetery {{Croatia-footy-midfielder-stub