Bruno Knežević

Soccer player, coach and sports journalist (Čaporice near Sinja, 12 March 1915 — Zagreb, 26 March 1982), finished high school in Kotor in 1934, graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Law in 1938. After II. during World War I worked at the Zagreb publishing company "Mladost". As an assistant, he played for Kotor's "Primorac" in 1930–33, Belgrade Sport Club in 1934–41 (with which he won national championships in 1935 and 1941) and for the Zagreb clubs HAŠK in 1941–45. and "Dinamo" in 1945–46. He played for the national team in a match against Poland in 1938. Being a coach, he managed several Zagreb teams, among them "Dinamo" in 1949 and "Zagreb" in 1949–51, and organized and taught coaching courses, and in Zagreb in 1948 founded and led the first football school in Croatia. Wrote the book Nogomet (Zagreb 1954), our first such textbook. He was an official for many years in the football associations of Croatia (president 1968–71) and Yugoslavia and a member of the committee for amateur football of the European Association of Football Associations (UEFA). He was the winner of the May Award of the Republic Secretariat for Education, Culture and Physical Culture in 1963 and the Trophy of the Association for Physical Culture of Croatia in 1971.