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Which team did Rizah Mešković play for in Jun 1973?
Rizah Mešković Rizah Mešković ( born 10 August 1947 ) is a Bosnian retired professional football goalkeeper and former football manager . On the international level he played for the Yugoslavia national team once in 1972 , and was a participant at the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany . Throughout his football career , both as a player and coach , Mešković had many success and received a good number of awards from UEFA , FIFA and the Football Association of Yugoslavia ( FJS ) . Club career . Sloboda Tuzla . According to Mešković , he started his professional football career at boyhood age , and the first club that he ever played in was FK Sloboda Tuzla from 1964 , where he remained until 1973 , that is , until his departure to HNK Hajduk Split . According to Gojko Škrbić , Sloboda sold him to Hajduk for two years with the compensation of the then 14 million old dinar . In the 1968–69 Yugoslav Second League season , Sloboda won 36 points and scored 50 goals , while Mešković capitulated only nine times , the least of all other Second league and First league goalkeepers . Hajduk Split . For the Bili ( The Whites ) , Mešković played 107 games , 53 games in the championship , 9 games in the cup , 6 in European competitions , and 39 games in friendly matches . He stood on the goal for the first time in a farewell game of the legendary Radomir Vukčević ( Vučka ) , Ivica Hlevnjak and Pero Nadoveza . The first official appearance for Hajduk , was in the Yugoslav Cup on 12 August 1973 , in the starting lineup against FK Vardar , which Hajduk won with 5:1 . While at Hajduk , The fans gave him the nickname Mate and sang the song From Marjans blowing the breeze Mešković keeps the door guarding us . A strong and powerful goalkeeper , safe in running ins , with Hajduk he won two Yugoslavian Championships in 1974 ( with 33 appearances ) and 1975 ( with 16 appearances ) . He also won 3 cups in a row in 1973 , 1974 and in 1976 . 789 minutes without a goal . Rizah holds in the territory of the former Yugoslavia a record of 789 minutes of not conceding a goal . That series of not conceding a goal was broken by Vladimir Petković . The last goal he received was in a match against FK Željezničar Sarajevo in Split on 25 November 1973 ( 1 : 1 ) . From that game , goals werent conceded in matches played against : FK Borac Banja Luka in Banja Luka ( 0 : 0 ) , then OFK Belgrade in Split ( 2 : 0 ) , FK Vojvodina in Split ( 3 : 0 ) , GNK Dinamo Zagreb in Zagreb ( 0 : 1 ) , OFK Bor in Split ( 3 : 0 ) , FK Radnički Niš in Niš ( 0 : 1 ) and NK Čelik Zenica in Split ( 1 : 0 ) . Only in the 22nd round Hajduk lost from FK Sarajevo 1 : 0.However , in that game , Brane Oblak , Ivan Buljan , Slaviša Žungul and Mićun Jovanić did not play . The players that did play were : Mešković , Vilson Džoni , Vedran Rožić , Luka Peruzović , Dragan Holcer , Mario Boljat , Željko Mijač , Dražen Mužinić , Joško Gluić , Jurica and Ivica Šurjak . From AZ Alkmaar to Orebić . With 107 games to his name , he left Hajduk in 1976 and joined Dutch club AZ Alkmaar where he stayed until 1979 and had to fight for his place between the posts with Gerrit Vooys . After Alkmaar , he returned to Tuzla and once again joined Sloboda in 1979 where he stayed until 1983 , after which he went to several domestic clubs . They were : FK Budućnost Banovići , where he stayed from 1983 to 1984 , then FK Radnik Bijeljina from 1984 to 1985 , NK Bratstvo Gračanica , from 1985 to 1987 . He ended his career in where he played from 1987 to 1988 . International career . For the national team of Yugoslavia , he played one game , on 29 June 1972 , against Scotland , a game that was played in the Brazil Independence Cup in Belo Horizonte which ended with a score of 2 : 2 . He was also a part of the squad that played at the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany . However , Mešković didnt play a single game at the Cup . Coaching career . He started his coaching career with the completion of the coaching school in Sarajevo , and already in 1988 he trained the Yugoslav B team and next year FK Sloboda Tuzla . Finally in the 1990 , he became an assistant coach to Ivica Osim in the Yugoslavia A team . In 1991 as a member of the Yugoslavia staff , he went to the United Arab Emirates where he coached several clubs and A and B national teams . He also spent some time in Saudi Arabia as a coach ( Al Ahli SC in Jeddah , 2001–2002 ) . After Saudi Arabia he also coached in Qatar ( Al Sadd in Doha , 2002–2005 as an assistant ) . However , he spent most of his time in the Emirates where he trained clubs Al Wahda FC ( 1991–1992 ) in Abu Dhabi , Al Shabab Al Arabi Club ( 1992–1993 , 1999–2001 and 2005–2007 ) , Al Wasl F.C . ( 1997–1998 ) from Dubai and Al Nasr SC ( 1998–1999 ) also in Dubai . He ended his professional coaching career in 2007 . Honours . Club . Hajduk Split - Yugoslav First League : 1974 , 1975 - Yugoslav Cup : 1973 , 1974 , 1975–76 AZ Alkmaar - KNVB Cup : 1977–78 Manager . Al Ahli - Crown Prince Cup : 2001–02 - Saudi Federation Cup : 2001–02 - GCC Champions League : 2002 External links . - Serbian national football team website