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Stjepan Bobek, a record-setting striker for Yugoslavia and Partizan Belgrade, has died. He was 86.
Belgrade emergency clinic doctors did not immediately specify the cause of Bobek's death early Sunday.
The Croatia-born Bobek scored 403 goals in 468 matches between 1945-58 for Partizan Belgrade, a club record. In 1947, he scored a record nine goals in a Yugoslav league game.
He also scored 38 goals in 63 matches for the Yugoslavia national team. He won two Olympic silver medals, in London in 1948 and Helsinki in 1954.
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After his playing career ended, Bobek coached in Poland, Tunisia, Macedonia and Greece.
He remained in the Serbian capital Belgrade after the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
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