Florijan Matekalo

Florijan Matekalo
Personal information
Full name	Florijan Matekalo
Date of birth	25 April 1920
Place of birth	Jajce, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Date of death	20 May 1995 (aged 75)
Place of death	Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1933–1936	Elektrobosna Jajce
Senior career*
Years	Team
1936–1939	Slavija Sarajevo
1939–1945	Građanski Zagreb
1946–1947	Partizan
International career
1940	Banovina of Croatia
1940	Yugoslavia
Managerial career
1957	Partizan
1962	Hajduk Split
1964	Partizan
1979	Partizan
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Florijan Matekalo (Croatian pronunciation: [flǒrijaːn matěːkalo];^[1]^[2] 25 April 1920 – 20 May 1995) was a footballer who played international football for both Yugoslavia and Croatia.^[3]

He scored the first goal in the history of the Croatia national team^[4] and the first goal ever for FK Partizan.^[5]

International career

Matekalo debuted for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia's national team (Beli Orlovi) in a November 1940 friendly match against Nazi Germany and concurrently played all four matches for the Banovina of Croatia's national team, which represented the Croatian statelet within the kingdom.^[6]

^ "Flòrijān". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018. Flòrijān
^ "Máte". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018. Matékalo
^ "Players Appearing for Two or More Countries". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 3 August 2008. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
^ "Jutarnji article". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
^ Mozzart article
^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 20 October 2022.