Andrija Ankovic

Soccer Player

Birthday July 16, 1937

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Yugoslavia

DEATH DATE Apr 28, 1980 (42)

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About

Croatian midfielder and forward who had a remarkable career with Hajduk Split and helped the Yugoslavian national team win gold at the 1960 Olympics.

Before Fame

His youth career was spent with GOSK Gabela and NK Neretva Metkovic.

Trivia

He died of a heart attack when he was only forty-two years old.

Family Life

His family lived in Gabela (then in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) at the time of his birth.

Associated With

Drazan Jerkovic was another Yugoslav-Croatian soccer player who played in the same era.