Rudolf Belin

Rudolf Belin
Personal information
Date of birth	4 November 1942 (age 82)
Place of birth	Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
	NK Jedinstvo Zagreb
Senior career*
Years	Team
1959–1970	Dinamo Zagreb
1970–1972	Beerschot VAC
Total
International career
1963–1969	Yugoslavia
Managerial career
1977–1978	Dinamo Zagreb
1983	Dinamo Zagreb
1989	Dinamo Zagreb
1998	Toronto Croatia
2001	Iraq
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Yugoslavia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rudolf Belin (born 4 November 1942) is a Croatian retired football manager and player.

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

^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
^ "(VIDEO) LEGENDA NAD LEGENDAMA Rudi Belin, igrač i trener Dinama bio je obožavan". Sportska revija (in Croatian). 20 March 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2021.

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)

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[1] "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 6 June 2022.

[2] "(VIDEO) LEGENDA NAD LEGENDAMA Rudi Belin, igrač i trener Dinama bio je obožavan". Sportska revija (in Croatian). 20 March 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2021.

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