Bruno Belin

Bruno Belin
Personal information
Full name Bruno Belin
Date of birth 16 January 1929
Place of birth Zagreb, Kingdom of SCS
Date of death 20 October 1962(1962-10-20) (aged 33)
Place of death Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
HAŠK
1945–1947 Metalac Zagreb
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1947–1950 Metalac Zagreb
1951–1962 Partizan 205 (10)
International career
1952–1959 Yugoslavia 25 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bruno Belin (16 January 1929 – 20 October 1962) was a Croatian and Yugoslav footballer. He played as a defender for Partizan during the 1950s and the early 1960s, and was known as one of the best Yugoslav defenders of that period. With Partizan, he played a total of 463 games, and scored 41 goals, winning one Yugoslav First League and three Yugoslav Cups.[1]

He was capped 25 times for Yugoslavia,[2] and played for them at the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He made his debut for Yugoslavia against in December 1952 against West Germany. His last match for Yugoslavia was a 1960 European Nations' Cup qualifying match against Bulgaria in May 1959.[3]

Belin died in a car crash in October 1962 on the Belgrade-Zagreb highway, along with Partizan defender Čedomir Lazarević, water polo player Boris Škanata, and Radnički Beograd player Vladimir Josipović.[1] The FK Partizan Academy, commonly known as "Belin–Lazarević–Nadoveza youth school" is named in his honour.[1]

Belin's younger brother Rudolf (1942–2025) was also a footballer, who finished runner-up at the 1968 UEFA European Championship with Yugoslavia.

Honours

Partizan

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Bruno Belin at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
  2. ↑ "Yugoslavia (Serbia (and Montenegro)) - Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
  3. ↑ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 6 June 2022.

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