Please answer the following question: Facts: - clubs: ca sports generaux hSk graanski - position: forward - nationalcaps: 14 - years: 1920 -- 1923 1923 -- 1929 - nationalyears: 1920 -- 1927 - death date: may 1945 -lrb- age 47 -rrb- - nationalgoals: 2 - birth date: 20 june 1897 - name: emil perska - nationalteam: kingdom of yugoslavia - death place: zagreb , fpr yugoslavia - birth place: zagreb , austria -- hungary Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of emil perska .
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emil perska -lrb- 20 june 1897 -- may 1945 -rrb- was a croatian footballer .he was born in zagreb and spent the majority of his career with graanski zagreb , with whom he won three yugoslav championships in the 1920s .he was also a member of the yugoslav squad at the 1920 , 1924 and 1928 olympic tournaments .born in zagreb in present-day croatia , perska was a member of the slovak ethnic minority .following world war i perska was wanted by the authorities as he was accused of desertion .perska then escaped to vienna to avoid arrest and it was there that he signed a professional contract with graanski in 1919 before returning to the country .he was called up for kingdom of yugoslavia 's first international tournament , at the 1920 olympics in antwerp , and he appeared in the country 's first ever international match on 28 august 1920 , a 7 -- 0 defeat to czechoslovakia .after the tournament perska had signed for parisian side ca sports generaux and had a brief spell with them before returning to graanski in the early 1920s .during the 1920s perska helped graanski win three yugoslav championship titles -lrb- 1923 , 1926 and 1928 -rrb- and was called up to the national squad for the 1924 and 1928 olympics , although he was unused at the 1928 tournament .he was capped 14 times and scored 2 international goals before retiring in 1929 .after retirement perska worked as a journalist and sports historian .he was allegedly a supporter of the fascist ustase regime during world war ii , and was shot by the yugoslav partisans in may 1945 in zagreb -lrb- like several other notable footballers such as graanski 's dragutin babic and concordia 's slavko pavletic -rrb- .