Rudolf Belin (born 4 November 1942) is a Croatian retired football manager and player.
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 4 November 1942 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| NK Jedinstvo Zagreb | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1959–1970 | Dinamo Zagreb | 191 | (31) | |||||||||||
| 1970–1972 | Beerschot VAC | 32 | (1) | |||||||||||
| Total | 223 | (32) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1963–1969 | Yugoslavia | 29 | (6) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1977–1978 | Dinamo Zagreb | |||||||||||||
| 1983 | Dinamo Zagreb | |||||||||||||
| 1989 | Dinamo Zagreb | |||||||||||||
| 1998 | Toronto Croatia | |||||||||||||
| 2001 | Iraq | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Club career
Belin started his career with Dinamo Zagreb in 1960, where he won the Yugoslav Cup three times and the 1967 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, beating the English side Leeds United and went on to make 410 appearances for the club until 1970, when he moved to Beerschot VAC in Belgium and he spent two years. He was voted Croatia's 36th footballer of the century in 2000 chosen by Večernji List.
International career
He made his debut for Yugoslavia in an October 1963 friendly match away against Romania and earned a total of 29 caps scoring 6 goals. His final international was an October 1969 World Cup qualification match against Belgium.[1] He also was a participant at the 1968 European Championship.
Managerial career
After retiring, he graduated from the Physical Education School at the University of Zagreb, becoming a coach, while he also spent a considerable time acting as Director of Dinamo's Youth Football Academy and also coached Toronto Croatia in Canada, during 1998.[2]
Belin coached the Iraq national team in 2001.
References
External links
- Rudolf Belin at Olympics.com
- Rudolf Belin at Olympedia
- Rudolf Belin at National-Football-Teams.com
- Rudolf Belin at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
