Ivan Medarić

Ivan "Ivica" Medarić (7 November 1912 – 30 November 1990) was a Croatian footballer who played in top league clubs in Yugoslavia and in the Yugoslavia national team.

Playing career Club Born in Sisak, Austro-Hungary (nowadays Croatia), he begin his career at local club HNK Segesta. and was qualified for the final phase of the Yugoslav League, however due to the start of the Second World War the championship was cancelled. In 1941 the city of Novi Sad was occupied by Hungary. FK Vojvodina stopped their activities. Medarić for some time continued playing football with NAK Novi Sad, then known as Újvideki AC and playing in the Hungarian championship. Medarić was in the group of Vojvodina players that joined NAK, among them there was goalkeeper Plac, Marjanović, Avramović, Jovanović and Živković, in order to avoid problems or even being sent to labour (concentration) camps. Medarić was in danger because he had been a member of the Yugoslav Communist Party since he was 20, and he has already been imprisoned for illegal activities during the pre-World War II period in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia while he was a veterinary student in Zagreb. So in 1943 he left NAK and joined the Yugoslav Partisans in their fight against Axis forces.

Immediately after the war, in 1945, he was among the first players of newly founded NK Dinamo Zagreb.

Managerial career After retiring, he was a coach for some time at Naprijed and at NK Lokomotiva.

Honours Građanski Zagreb Yugoslav First League: 1936–37

HAŠK Yugoslav First League: 1937–38