Milutin Ivković

Milutin Ivković (born March 3, 1906 in Belgrade , † May 23, 1943 in Jajinci concentration camp near Belgrade) was a Yugoslav football player . He completed 39 international matches for the Yugoslav national team and took part with her as captain in the 1930 World Cup.

biography

Ivković, who was born in Belgrade, only joined his first football club at the age of 16 with SK Jugoslavija Belgrade . Just a year later, the defender made his debut in the first team and became Yugoslav champions at the age of 18. After he was able to defend the national title with SK Jugoslavija in the following year, he played for the first time in the Yugoslav national team on October 28, 1925. Despite the 7-0 defeat against Czechoslovakia , Milutinac was still in the squad.

At the Olympic Games in 1928 , he led his country into football competition as captain. In the opening game against Portugal he was the first Yugoslav national player to be sent off in the 80th minute and had to watch the last ten minutes of the surprising first round (1: 2) against the Iberians as a spectator.

Because of his consistently good performance, the medical student remained captain of the Yugoslavs and was also involved in the first soccer World Cup in 1930. At just 24 years of age, he was the second youngest captain of the tournament and reached the semifinals of the tournament with his team after victories over Brazil (2: 1) and Bolivia (4: 0). In his 25th international match, his team had to admit defeat to eventual world champions Uruguay 1: 6 in front of 55,000 (some sources even speak of almost 100,000) spectators at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo.

In 1929 Ivković moved to BASK after playing 235 games for Jugoslavija. However, he was no longer granted another national title.

In 1934 he gave his farewell game in the national team. The game on December 16 against France (2-3) at Parc des Princes was his 39th international match. He led his team as captain 19 times. He failed to score one goal in the games, but he was responsible for two own goals.

He also successfully completed his medical degree in 1934.

In 1936, Ivković was one of the organizers in favor of a Yugoslav boycott of the 1936 Olympic Games , and he was partly responsible for the absence of the Yugoslav team.

Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, he ended his career at the age of 33. During the war he was arrested several times by the Gestapo. After a celebration by his former BASK association on May 6, 1943, Ivković was arrested again and shot 18 days later in Jajinci concentration camp near Belgrade.

Since 1951 a plaque in the stadium of FK Partizan Belgrade and a street near the stadium commemorates him.

Web links

• Milutin Ivković in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )