Josip Bukal
Yugoslav football player and coach (1945-2016)
Josip "Mane" Bukal (15 November 1945 – 30 August 2016) was a Yugoslav and Bosnian professional football player and later on football manager. During his playing days, he played as a striker.
Early life
Bukal was born in the village of Okešinec near Ivanić-Grad where he started his primary education, before moving to Veliki Crljeni in Serbia for the fifth, sixth, and seventh grade. He moved to Sarajevo at the age of 15.
Club career
Bukal's involvement with football began with the youth team of local club Željezničar. He scored 10 goals in one game for the youth team before he made his debut for the first team in 1963. He played 290 official matches with Željezničar and scored 127 goals. Bukal is the joint highest goalscorer in the history of the club, alongside Dželaludin Muharemović. He was a member of the Željezničar team that won the Yugoslav championship in the 1971–72 season.
In 1973, Bukal moved to Belgium to play for Standard Liège.
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