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Miroslav Brozović
	Brozović (left) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Miroslav Brozović
Date of birth	26 August 1917
Place of birth	Mostar, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	5 October 2006 (aged 89)
Place of death	Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1933–1934	JŠK Mostar
1934–1935	Zrinjski Mostar
1935–1945	Građanski Zagreb
1946–1948	Partizan
1948–1953	Sarajevo
International career
1940	Yugoslavia
1941–1944	Independent State of Croatia
1940–1948	Yugoslavia
Managerial career
1948–1952	Sarajevo
1954–1956	Sarajevo
1956–1958	Željezničar
1959–1961	Sarajevo
1966–1967	Sarajevo
1969–1970	Sarajevo
Medal record
Representing Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Miroslav "Meho" Brozović (26 August 1917 – 5 October 2006) was a Bosnian Croat professional footballer and football manager who played international football for the Yugoslavia national team, as well as the national team fielded by the Independent State of Croatia during World War II. He played as a defender.^[2]

Club career

Brozović began his career with local sides JŠK and Zrinjski Mostar before moving to Građanski Zagreb in 1935. With Građanski, he won the Yugoslav First League in seasons 1936–37 and 1939–40 and Yugoslav Cup in 1938 and 1940.

The Communist authorities disbanded Građanski Zagreb, forcing Brozović to move to the newly formed army club Partizan, with whom he won the league title in the 1946–47 season. He also won the Yugoslav Cup in 1947.

From 1948 to 1953, Brozović played for Sarajevo. In the 1948–49 season, he as a player-manager, won the Yugoslav Second League with Sarajevo. He became a club legend at the club. He ended his playing career at Sarajevo in 1953.

International career

Brozović debuted for the Yugoslavia national team in 1940. However, with the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia in 1941, he began playing for the Croatia national team. He suited up for Croatia 17 times during the war before communist Yugoslavia came into existence after the war. ^{[citation needed]}

Brozović won a silver medal for Yugoslavia in football at the 1948 Summer Olympics.^[3] He played four matches and scored no goals.^[1]

His final international for Yugoslavia was an August 1948 Balkan Cup match against Poland.^[4]

Managerial career

Brozović started managing Sarajevo in 1948 as a player-manager. He won the Yugoslav Second League in the 1948–49 season. After ending his playing career in 1953, he became a full-time manager. Brozović left Sarajevo in 1956, and was immediately named manager of Sarajevo's fierce city rival Željezničar. Brozović promoted the club to the Yugoslav First League in 1957. He managed Željezničar until 1958.

In 1959, Brozović once again became the manager of Sarajevo. He stayed at the club until 1961. Five years later, in 1966, for the fourth time in his career, Brozović became the manager of Sarajevo. As manager, he won the club's historic, first ever Yugoslav First League title in the 1966–67 season. After the end of the season, he left Sarajevo in the summer of 1967. He would return to Sarajevo once again and manage the club from 1969 to 1970.