Jurica Jerković

Jure Jerković
Personnel
Surname	Jurica Jerković
birthday	February 25, 1950
place of birth	Split ,  SFR Yugoslavia
date of death	3rd June 2019
size	175 cm
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1968-1988	HNK Hajduk Split	251 (71)
1978-1985	FC Zurich	205 (54)
1985-1987	FC Lugano
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1970-1981	Yugoslavia	43 (6)
1 Only league games are given.

Jurica Jerković (born February 25, 1950 in Split , at the time: SFR Yugoslavia , now Croatia ; † June 3, 2019 ), real first name Jure , was a Yugoslav football player .

The midfielder belonged to the "golden generation" (Croatian zlatna generacija ) of the 1970s of the Hajduk Split club .

Career

For the first time he played in the 1968/69 season for Hajduk in the first Yugoslav league and was three times Yugoslav champions with the "whites" in the following years and won the Yugoslav Cup five times. In 1978 he moved to FC Zurich in Switzerland , where he was once Swiss champion and three times as the best foreign footballer in Switzerland. In 1985 he moved to Ticino to FC Lugano to end his career in the second-class National League B.

For the national team of Yugoslavia Jerković made his debut on April 12, 1970 in Belgrade against Hungary when he was substituted on during the break . He played at the 1974 World Cup in Germany and at the 1976 European Championship finals in Yugoslavia. He was also part of the Yugoslav squad at the 1982 World Cup , but was not used.

He played a total of 43 games for Yugoslavia and scored six goals.

successes

• Yugoslav champion: 1971, 1974 and 1975
• Yugoslav Cup Winner: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976 and 1977
• Swiss champion: 1981
• Foreign footballer of the year (Switzerland): 1979, 1982 and 1983

Web links

• Statistics FC Zurich
• Profile at the Serbian Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tomislav Gabelić, Hrvoje Tironi: Preminuo je Jurica Jerković! Otišla je prava ikona Hajduka. Obituary on 24sata.hr of June 3, 2019. Accessed June 4, 2019 (Croatian).