Emil Perška

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Emil Perška
Personal information
Full name Emanuel Perška
Date of birth 20 June 1896
Place of birth Zagreb, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 8 May 1945(1945-05-08) (aged 48) [1]
Place of death Zagreb, FS Croatia, DF Yugoslavia
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1919–1920 HŠK Građanski
1920–1923 CA Sports Généraux
1923–1929 HŠK Građanski
International career
1920–1927 Kingdom of SCS 14 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Emanuel "Emil" Perška (20 June 1896 – 8 May 1945) was a Croatian footballer. He was born in Zagreb and spent the majority of his career with Građanski Zagreb, with whom he won three Yugoslav championships in the 1920s. He was also a member of the Yugoslav squad at the 1920, 1924 and 1928 Olympic tournaments. [2] [3]

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Club career

Born in Zagreb in present-day Croatia, Perška was a member of the Slovak ethnic minority. [4] Following World War I Perška was wanted by the authorities as he was accused of desertion. Perška then escaped to Vienna to avoid arrest and it was there that he signed a professional contract with Građanski in 1919 before returning to the country. [4]

International career

He was called up for Kingdom of Yugoslavia's first international tournament, at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, and he appeared in the country's first ever international match on 28 August 1920, a 7–0 defeat to Czechoslovakia. After the tournament Perška had signed for Parisian side CA Sports Généraux and had a brief spell with them before returning to Građanski in the early 1920s.

During the 1920s Perška helped Građanski win three Yugoslav championship titles [4] (1923, 1926 and 1928) and was called up to the national squad for the 1924 and 1928 Olympics, although he was unused at the 1928 tournament. He was capped 14 times and scored 2 international goals before retiring in 1929. [4] His final international was a July 1927 friendly against Czechoslovakia. [5]

After retirement Perška worked as a journalist and sports historian. [4] He was allegedly a fervent supporter of the Ustaše movement during World War II, [4] and was shot by the Yugoslav Partisans in May 1945 in Zagreb (like several other notable footballers such as Građanski's Dragutin Babić and Concordia's Slavko Pavletić). [6]

Honours

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References

  1. ↑ "Emil Perška". Croatian Olympic Committee. 19 May 2017. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "Emil Perška". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 15 September 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  3. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Emil Perška". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Perška Emanuel". Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian). 10 January 2010. Archived from the original on 5 December 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
  5. ↑ "Emil Perška". EU-football Player Database. Archived from the original on 18 November 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  6. ↑ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
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