Josip Zemko

Josip Zemko (13 March 1946 — 11 April 2017) was a Yugoslav football manager and player.

Club career Zemko played a total of 74 matches for Željezničar.

International career He was one of the best Yugoslav defenders in the 1960s. In 1963, he started playing for the first team and very soon he became a candidate for the Yugoslavia national team. He had collected three caps before he broke a leg in 1966. He never managed to reach the same level of play he was showing before the injury.

Zemko made his debut for Yugoslavia in a September 1965 friendly match away against the Soviet Union and earned a total of 3 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was an October 1965 World Cup qualification match away against France.

Managerial career After having coached several clubs in Serbia, he was coaching youth teams at FK Bačka 1901.