Aleksandar Živković (footballer, born 1912), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aleksandar Živković (footballer, born 1912)

Yugoslavian footballer

Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1912

Place of Birth: Orašje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date of Death: 25-Feb-2000

Profession: association football player

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Aleksandar Živkovic (25 December 1912 in Orašje – 25 February 2000 in Zagreb) was a Croatian footballer.
Domestically he played for Croatian clubs Concordia Zagreb and Gradanski Zagreb while abroad he played for Grasshopper Club Zürich and RCF Paris, CA Paris and FC Sochaux-Montbéliard.One of the top goalscorers in the Royal Yugoslavian championship with 34 goals from 1929-35, Živkovic was capped 15 times for the Yugoslavian national team and once for the Croatian national team in 1940.
Živkovic was one of seven Croatian players to boycott the Yugoslavian national team at the 1930 FIFA World Cup after the Football Association of Yugoslavia was moved from Zagreb to Belgrade.
Živkovic was the top scorer at the 1932 Balkan Cup, with five goals.During the Second World War, Živkovic had served as a diplomat in the Independent State of Croatia's embassies in Berlin and Budapest.
In 1945, after the war, he migrated to South Africa, where he lived until 1993, when he moved back to the newly independent Republic of Croatia.
He died in Zagreb in 2000, aged 87, and was interred in Mirogoj cemetery.