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Branko Vrgoč

Croatian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ3643774 ↗
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Branko Vrgoč (born 18 December 1989) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bosnian Premier League club HŠK Posušje.

Club career

Vrgoč started his career playing at youth level for his hometown club Osijek. He was loaned to Druga HNL side Slavonac CO for the 2008–09 season and helped them secure a promotion spot to the Prva HNL. However, after they were unable to find a suitable ground for hosting matches, Slavonac CO were demoted to first county league. In September 2009, Vrgoč sustained a cruciate ligament injury during the preparations for the upcoming season. He underwent three surgeries during the period of one year and missed out 2009–10 season. Manager Branko Karačić, who previously coached Vrgoč in Slavonac CO, included him in the team that underwent mid-season preparations in Turkey for the second part of the 2010–11 season. He made his debut for the first team in a goalless draw against Lokomotiva on 25 February 2011.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Branko Vrgoč” as croatian footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2008, 2009, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-12-18. The account is most persuasive where Branko, Vrgoč and Croatian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as croatian footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3643774. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Branko Vrgoč” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.