Željko Čajkovski

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Željko Čajkovski
Personnel
birthday May 5, 1925
place of birth Zagreb ,  Yugoslavia
date of death November 11, 2016
Place of death Munich ,  Germany
size 178 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1938-1945 HAŠK Zagreb
1945-1956 Dinamo Zagreb
1956-1958 SV Werder Bremen
1958-1960 1. FC Lichtenfels
1960-1963 SpVgg Landshut
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1947-1951 Yugoslavia 19 0(12)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1960-1963 SpVgg Landshut (player-coach)
1964-1966 SpVgg Fürth
1966-1969 Borussia Neunkirchen
1971-1974 SSV Ulm 1846
1974 VfR Heilbronn
1975 Wacker 04 Berlin
1978-1980 FC Bayern Munich amateurs
1 Only league games are given.

Željko Hinko Čajkovski (born May 5, 1925 in Zagreb , † November 11, 2016 in Munich , Germany ) was a Yugoslav football player and coach . With the national team he won Olympic silver in 1948 and took part in the 1950 World Cup. With Dinamo Zagreb he was champion and cup winner. In Germany he played for SV Werder Bremen . As a coach, he worked in the second division at SpVgg Fürth and in the Bundesliga for Borussia Neunkirchen .

Željko Čajkovski, used as left winger and attacking left midfield, is the two years younger brother of Zlatko "Tschik" Čajkovski , who impressed as a world-class footballer in the early 1950s and had great success as a coach in Germany in the 1960s. In contrast to the two-footed Tschik, Željko was left-footed and was 14 cm taller at 178 cm. His temperament was also more reserved. Željko Čajkovski, known for his good technique and accuracy of fit, is still one of the most outstanding players in the history of Dinamo Zagreb and the attacking trio Ratko Kacijan - Franjo Wölfl - Željko Čajkovski is fondly remembered.

Željko Čajkovski initially played tennis, among other things, and reached the semi-finals of the Croatian championship in 1947 .

After completing his playing career, he stayed in Germany and held several coaching positions. The graduate economist was mainly engaged in textile import and export.

Željko Čajkovski lived in Munich from around the year 2000 and at the age of 90 he still devoted himself to playing chess at competitive level.

career

As a player

He started playing football in 1938 in his hometown at HAŠK , the “Croatian Academic Sports Club”, where he was soon able to establish himself on the combat team alongside his brother Zlatko. At the end of the Second World War, based on a medical friendship report that confirmed bleeding ulcers, he was able to avoid deployment on the Eastern Front, but could not evade forced recruitment by the partisans.

After the end of the war, the HAŠK, like other traditional associations, was dissolved. Alongside numerous other players such as Ivica Horvat , he joined the newly founded NK Dinamo Zagreb , while his brother continued to play for Partisan in Belgrade. With Dinamo he won the national championships of 1948 and 1954, and in 1951 the erstwhile after Marshal Tito named cup competition . In the finals, the Croatians defeated FK Vojvodina Novi Sad twice with 2-0. Dinamo made it into the cup final for the first time the year before, but lost 3-0 to the capital city club Roter Stern after a 1-1 draw in the replay. In total, he appeared in 184 league games for Dinamo and scored 68 goals.

In May 1947 he made his debut in the Yugoslav national team , with which he took part in the 1948 Olympic Games in London . He stood there with his brother Zlatko, of Belgrade in 1945 FK Partizan joined in the team with the stars in the finals to Gunnar Nordahl , Gunnar Gren and Nils Liedholm been beaten Sweden with 1: subject to third

In December 1949 he scored the winning goal in the 114th minute in the playoff for qualifying for the 1950 World Cup against France in Florence, Italy , making it 3-2. Up until six minutes before the end of regular time, the French were still leading 2-1. His goal came from a shot from an "impossible angle" - out of reach for the goalkeeper and deflected. About this goal, France's then national goalkeeper Abderrahman Ibrir said afterwards: "If Čajkovski would repeat that shot a hundred times, he would not convert it a hundred times".

At the tournament in Brazil he was, again together with his brother, a regular of the team that beat Switzerland and Mexico (4-1), with Željko Čajkovski contributing two goals in the latter game. However, due to a 2-0 defeat in the last group game against the hosts and ultimately runner-up world champions, the Yugoslavs could not qualify for the final group. In June 1951 he played his last of a total of 19 games for the national team, in which he scored 12 goals.

After he had reached the appropriate age threshold, Čajkovski was allowed to move abroad in 1956 and joined the North German league club SV Werder Bremen , for whom he scored 12 goals in 33 games in the following two seasons. At that time he also completed a trainer training at the sports university in Cologne .

For the 1958/59 season he moved to the southern league club 1. FC Nuremberg , for which he did not come to a match. The following season he ended as a player-coach at the Upper Franconian 1. FC Lichtenfels in the third-class Bayernliga , where he acted as a player-coach and led the club to the championship of the northern group. In the final of the Bavarian championship in 1960 against the champions of the southern group, the Lichtenfels won 5: 3 in Augsburg against Swabia Augsburg , but failed in the promotion round to the regional league to Borussia Fulda and the Offenburg FV .

Then he was player-coach at the Lower Bavarian capital club SpVgg Landshut until 1963, with whom he occupied middle places in the table of the third-class Landesliga-Süd .

As a trainer

Between 1964 and 1966 he was in the then second-rate Regionalliga Süd coach at SpVgg Fürth , with which he reached fourth place in 1966. At the beginning of the new season he took over the fate of the Bundesliga relegated Borussia Neunkirchen , which he led to the championship in the Regionalliga Südwest and to direct promotion . In the 1967/68 season, Borussia was knocked-off table penultimate and was relegated again. The defense of the Saarlanders proved to be particularly vulnerable and had to accept a remarkable 93 goals. Čajkovski stayed one more season in Neunkirchen and ended his time there in fifth place in the regional league. According to his own statements, he had a monthly salary of DM 5,000 at Neunkirchen, which at times was quite considerable.

From 1971 to 1974 he coached the 1970 from a fusion of the first SSV Ulm 1928 and TSG Ulm 1846 emerged SSV Ulm 1846 in the third-rate amateur league Nordwürttemberg and reached with the club there twice first and once second place.

In the year it was introduced, Čajkovski coached VfR Heilbronn in the southern group of the 2nd Bundesliga at the beginning of the 1974/75 season . After the 14th matchday the team was on the penultimate place in the table and Čajkovski had to make way for Rudi Faßnacht . However, VfR was still in penultimate place after the last match day and had to relegate together with Borussia Neunkirchen. The player Otto Frey , who later became a coach himself, said in an interview about Čajkovski in 2010: “When I think about it today, Zeljko Cajkovski wasn't tough enough. He was a very polite and friendly person, made his jokes and patted us on the shoulder. However, he missed the necessary hardness. What was too soft for Zeljko Cajkovski was too hard for Rudi Faßnacht. "

For the second half of the season he was obliged by Wacker 04 Berlin , who played in the northern group , where he finished the season 13th.

successes

As a player:

As player coach:

  • Bavarian Amateur Championship: 1960

As a trainer:

  • Promotion to the Bundesliga: 1967

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Munich Championship 2014
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, pp. 76 and 312
  3. ↑ Quotation from L'Équipe from December 13, 1949, printed in L'Équipe / Ejnès, Belle histoire, p. 77
  4. ↑ SpVgg Fürth (Amat.) - 1. FC Lichtenfels , SpVgg Fürth.de
personal data
SURNAME Čajkovski, Željko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Čajkovski, Željko Hinko (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb , Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2016
Place of death Munich , Germany