playing_years databasefootball death_place death_date birth_place playing_team stats article_title position birth_date college name
1969 gavrimom01 soccer san jose , california , united states 13 march 2010 sinj , croatia san francisco 49ers y momčilo gavrić -lrb- footballer -rrb-
 k defender , left back 04 august 1938 university of belgrade momčilo gavrić
momčilo gavrić -lrb- footballer -rrb-

momčilo `` gabbo '' gavrić -lrb- august 4 , 1938 -- march 13 , 2010 -rrb- was a yugoslav soccer player .
born in sinj , croatia , gavric aspired to play professional soccer and played in his hometowm club nk junak sinj .
in 1959 he moved to belgrade , then yugoslav capital , and began playing with yugoslav first league side ofk beograd .
he had call-ups to the national team , but only ended up playing for the b national team .
he left yugoslavia in 1967 and moved to the united states .
in 1967 he signed with the oakland clippers of the north american soccer league .
gavrić spent two seasons with the clippers and won the 1967 championship with them .
he was also an nfl placekicker for the san francisco 49ers in 1969 .
in 1971 , he moved to the dallas tornado , then on to the san jose earthquakes from 1974 to 1978 .
in 1975 gabbo gavrić was the co-mvp of the nasl indoor tournament and named to the all-tournament team .
he was a player and coach at san jose until 1976 , and he continued to coach through 1978 .
gavric died march 13 , 2010 of complications from parkinson 's disease .
