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Josip Weber

Josip Weber

Footballer

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Career & Clubs

Club career

Weber began his senior career in Yugoslavia with lower league side NK Borac Podvinje. He then joined BSK Slavonski Brod where he played 3 seasons before moving to HNK Hajduk Split of the Yugoslav First League in 1985. He spent 2 seasons in Split, winning the 1987 Yugoslav Cup. He also played for Yugoslav side NK Dinamo Vinkovci. He then moved to Belgium where he played several seasons for Cercle Brugge. There he proved to be a prolific goalscorer, becoming Belgium's top scorer several consecutive seasons without any contention despite Cercle Brugge only being an average team in the league at the time. Eventually he did join RSC Anderlecht (which was Belgium's top team at the time) and looked like he was headed for a brilliant few years. Unfortunately he got sidelined by a serious knee injury and never got to fulfil his clearly great potential with RSC Anderlecht, one of the few glimpses he was able to show was a strong performance in the Champions League match against Hungarian team Ferencvaros.

International career

In his international career, Weber became notable as one of the last footballers who played for national teams of two countries after being granted permission through clear connection shown from his family members. In July 1992, he started his international career with the Croatia national team during their Australian tour, where he appeared in all three of their friendly matches against the Australia national team and also managed to score Croatia's only goal during the tour as he scored in the second match, which they lost 3–1. The other two matches ended with a 1–0 win for Australia and a goalless draw respectively. After that, he never played for Croatia again. During the 1993–94 season, Weber took the job as a Belgium international team striker. Belgium national team (he was allowed to play for Belgium because his grandfather was originally from Belgium and because the previous matches for Croatia were all friendlies that were not under FIFA. Croatia only joined FIFA and UEFA in 1993). He made his debut for Belgium on 3 June 1994 in their friendly match against Zambia, which was highly successful as he managed to score five goals in a 9–0 win. He was also a regular member of the Belgian team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States and played in all of their four matches at the tournament, starting three of them. He nevertheless did not manage to score any goals before Belgium was eliminated by Germany in the round of 16. In minute 63 of the game, he was brought…

Career statistics

International

Weber's team's score listed first, score column indicates score after each Weber goal.

Club
Cercle Brugge K.S.V. (1988–1994)
Club
NK Marsonia (1982–1985)
Club
R.S.C. Anderlecht (1994–1997)
Club
HNK Cibalia (1987–1988)
Club
HNK Hajduk Split (1985–1987)
Club
Croatia men's national football team (1992–1992)
Club
Belgium men's national football team (1994–1994)
National team
Belgium

Legacy

Honours

Hajduk Split

Yugoslav Cup: 1986–87 Anderlecht

Belgian First Division: 1994–95 Belgian Super Cup: 1995 Individual

Belgian First Division top scorer: 1991–92 (26 goals), 1992–93 (31 goals), 1993–94 (31 goals)

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Identifiers & aliases
Description

Belgian footballer (1964-2017)

Position

forward

Extract from Wikipedia

Josip Weber, nicknamed Joske, was a professional footballer who played as a forward. He represented Croatia and Belgium at international level.

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