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| position = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]]
| youthyears1 = {{0|0000}}–1930
| youthclubs1 = [[FK Srem|Građanski Sr.Mitrovica]]
| years1 = 1930–1931
| years2 = 1932–1935
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==Career==
Born in Wilhelmsburg,<ref>Sometimes websites wrongly claim he has been born in [[Sremska Mitrovica]] where he lived as youngster. He was actually born in a boat where his mother worked, that travelled trough the [[Danube]] having been recorded Wilhelmsburg as his birthplace because it was the place the boat was stationed at the moment of his birth.</ref> Austria, ethnically Hungarian,<ref>[http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/sipos-intl.html Vilmos Sipos] at RSSSF</ref> he begin playing with [[SK Građanski Sremska Mitrovica]] a local club in the town where he was living since young, in Vojvodina, still within Austro-Hungary back then. There he was spotted by Yugoslav [[SK Jugoslavija]] that offered him to move to Belgrade in 1930. After one season he moved to another [[Yugoslav First League]] club, Zagreb's [[HŠK Građanski]] where he will play until 1934. By 1934 his skills convinced the [[Football Association of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav Football Association]] to offer him to play for the [[Yugoslavia national football team|Yugoslav national team]], having debuted on 18 March 1934 against Bulgaria, in a 2-1 win.
Having represented two of the most notable clubs in Yugoslavia and having become national team player, foreign interest grow, and in summer 1934 he moved to Swiss [[BSC Young Boys]] where he will play two seasons until 1936. That year he moved to one of the most prominent French clubs from that period, [[FC Sète]]. In the [[Ligue 1]] he will play a total of 15 matches having scored twice. In this period he became a regular in the Yugoslav national team. In 1938 Zagreb's HŠK Građanski, with the financial effort of their vice-president Gustav Maceljski, who paid 100.000 [[French franc|Francs]] to Sète, brought him back, but after one season they sold him to [[FC Rapid Bucureşti]]. On 7 May 1939, he played his last match for the Yugoslav national team, against Romania, in a 0-1 defeat.
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