Rudolf Belin

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Rudolf Belin
Personal information
Date of birth (1942-11-04) 4 November 1942 (age 82)
Place of birth Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
NK Jedinstvo Zagreb
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1959–1970 Dinamo Zagreb 191 (31)
1970–1972 Beerschot VAC 32 (1)
Total223(32)
International career
1963–1969 Yugoslavia 29 (6)
Managerial career
1977–1978 Dinamo Zagreb
1983 Dinamo Zagreb
1989 Dinamo Zagreb
1998 Toronto Croatia
2001 Iraq
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  Yugoslavia
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg UEFA Euro 1968
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

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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.

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References

  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.