Marijan Jantoljak

Marijan Jantoljak
Personal information
Date of birth	7 February 1940
Place of birth	Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death	10 April 2025 (aged 85)
Place of death	Rijeka, Croatia
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Ponikve Zagreb
0000–1958	Radnički Nova Pazova
1958–1960	Jedinstvo Zemun
1960–1971	Rijeka
1971–1976	Borac Banja Luka
1976–1977	Metalac Sisak [hr]
1977–1978	Segesta Sisak
International career
1966	Yugoslavia
Managerial career
	Segesta Sisak
	Karlovac
1991–1992	Rijeka
1992–1993	Halubjan
1994	Inker Zaprešić
1994–1995	Karlovac
	Naprijed Hrijeljina
1994–1995	Koper
1995	Rijeka
	Rovinj
	Poreč
	Draga
	Opatija
	Orijent Rijeka
	Pomorac Kostrena
	Krk
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marijan Jantoljak (7 February 1940 – 10 April 2025)^[1] was a Croatian football player and manager who played as a goalkeeper.

Playing career

Club

Born in Zagreb, he started playing in a local club NK Ponikve.^[2] In his early career he also played with FK Radnički Nova Pazova from where, in summer 1958, he joined Jedinstvo Zemun.^[3]^[4] In the 1959–60 season he joined Rijeka and stayed in the club until 1972. That year he moved to Borac Banja Luka and played another five seasons there. By the end of his career he played with Yugoslav Second League sides Metalac Sisak [hr] and HNK Segesta.^[2]

As a player, he was the most capped goalkeeper of all time for HNK Rijeka. He also scored 15 goals during his time in Rijeka as he was a regular penalty kick taker. During the 1969–70 season, he did not concede a goal for 917 minutes, a record for any Rijeka goalkeeper.

International

Jantoljak made his debut for Yugoslavia in an October 1966 friendly match away against Israel, coming on as a 66th-minute substitute for Ilija Pantelić, and earned a total of two caps scoring no goals. His second and final international was a November 1966 friendly away against Bulgaria.^[5]^[6]

Managerial career

After retiring green at the age of 39, Jantoljak became a coach. Among other clubs, he managed HNK Rijeka during the 1991–92 and 1995 seasons.

References

^ In Memoriam: Marijan Jantoljak (1940. – 2025.) (in Croatian)
^ ^a ^b Marijan Jantoljak Archived 27 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine at Reprezentacija.rs
^ Pola vka fudbalskog kluba Zemun pag. 31–35
^ Fudbal u Zemunu Archived 10 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine at zemunskenovine.rs, by Branko Najhold, Retrieved 24 January 2017 (in Serbian)
^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
^ Lazzarich, Marinko (2008) (in Croatian). Kantrida bijelih snova. Rijeka: Adamić. ISBN 978-953-219-393-0, pp. 342–4.

External links

Marijan Jantoljak at National-Football-Teams.com

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[1] In Memoriam: Marijan Jantoljak (1940. – 2025.) (in Croatian)

[reprezentacija-2] Marijan Jantoljak Archived 27 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine at Reprezentacija.rs

[3] Pola vka fudbalskog kluba Zemun pag. 31–35

[4] Fudbal u Zemunu Archived 10 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine at zemunskenovine.rs, by Branko Najhold, Retrieved 24 January 2017 (in Serbian)

[5] "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 29 August 2022.

[6] Lazzarich, Marinko (2008) (in Croatian). Kantrida bijelih snova. Rijeka: Adamić. ISBN 978-953-219-393-0, pp. 342–4.

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