Ljubo Benčić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ljubo Benčić

Croatian footballer

Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1905

Place of Birth: Stari Grad, Croatia, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1992

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Ljubo Benčić

  • Ljubomir "Ljubo" Bencic (2 January 1905 – 24 February 1992) was a Croatian and Yugoslav football player. Spending his entire career at Hajduk Split, Bencic was a renowned right winger and centre forward.
  • He started playing top-flight football in 1921 and by 1923 he became the club's best all-time scorer with a total of 43 goals.
  • In 1925 he played his 100th game for the Whites, and in 1930 he scored his 300th goal for Hajduk.
  • Until his retirement in 1935 he scored an amazing 355 goals in 353 official games for Hajduk, which makes him currently Hajduk's third all-time goalscorer (behind Frane Matošic with 729 and Leo Lemešic with 445 goals).
  • With Hajduk he won two Yugoslav championship titles, in 1927 and 1929, and was also the league's top scorer in 1928, scoring 8 goals in 5 games. Between 1924 and 1927 Bencic earned 5 caps and scored 2 goals for Yugoslavia national football team.
  • He debuted on 28 September 1924 against Czechoslovakia and his last game for the national team was on 28 October 1927 against Czechoslovakia in Prague.
  • The game ended in a disastrous 7–1 defeat, and Bencic scored the only goal for Yugoslavia. After he stopped playing in 1935 he stayed in football and had two stints as manager of Hajduk: from 1939 to 1941 (the last two seasons before World War II, during the war, and then the first few seasons after the war from 1946 to 1948.
  • When he moved to Zagreb he managed NK Milicioner (which later merged with NK Borac to form NK Zagreb).
  • In 1957 he managed Bologna FC with Bernard Vukas.
  • Upon returning to Croatia he managed NK Trešnjevka and NK Zadar.
  • Bencic died in 1992 in Zagreb.

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