SOCCER PLAYER

Željko Čajkovski

1925 - 2016

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Željko Čajkovski (5 May 1925 – 11 November 2016) was a Croatian and Yugoslav football player and coach, who played as a forward. A prolific goalscorer, Čajkovski spent most of his career with his hometown club Dinamo Zagreb in the 1940s and 1950s, helping them win two championships of Yugoslavia and one Yugoslav cup. During this period he also scored 12 goals in 19 appearances for the national team, with whom he won the silver medal at the 1948 Olympic tournament in London and played at the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Željko Čajkovski has received more than 62,406 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Željko Čajkovski is the 1,218th most popular soccer player (down from 1,005th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 153rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Croatian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Željko Čajkovski ranks 1,218 out of 21,273. Before him are Wynton Rufer, Rabah Saâdane, Jan Tomaszewski, Márcio Amoroso, Ernst Stojaspal, and Horst Köppel. After him are Tadao Horie, Roberto Rojas, Antônio Carlos Zago, Al-Saadi Gaddafi, Josef Hügi, and Luis Regueiro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Željko Čajkovski ranks 193. Before him are Sergei Salnikov, Serge Dassault, Jørgen Ingmann, Leo Ryan, Roy Medvedev, and Ernst Stojaspal. After him are Thor Vilhjálmsson, Bernard Morel, Jimmy Smith, Lenny Bruce, Andrei Sinyavsky, and Scott Carpenter. Among people deceased in 2016, Željko Čajkovski ranks 191. Before him are Yūko Tsushima, Klim Churyumov, Jacques Hamel, Pierre Étaix, Halil İnalcık, and Madeleine Lebeau. After him are Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Guido Westerwelle, S. R. Nathan, Jay Wright Forrester, Roberto Perfumo, and Lars Gustafsson.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Željko Čajkovski ranks 175 out of 700. Before him are Vlado Milunić (1941), Tomaž Šalamun (1941), Ivica Horvat (1926), Franjo Kuharić (1919), Sergio Endrigo (1933), and Branko Mamula (1921). After him are August Šenoa (1838), Milan Nenadić (1943), Maximilian Njegovan (1858), Ivica Šurjak (1953), Darijo Srna (1982), and Zlatko Burić (1953).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Croatia

Among soccer players born in Croatia, Željko Čajkovski ranks 21. Before him are Mirko Jozić (1940), Alen Bokšić (1970), Ivan Perišić (1989), Robert Jarni (1968), Ivica Olić (1979), and Ivica Horvat (1926). After him are Ivica Šurjak (1953), Darijo Srna (1982), Ernesto Vidal (1921), Ante Žanetić (1936), Igor Tudor (1978), and Marcelo Brozović (1992).

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