Antun Herceg is a former Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n football player.

Club career

He started playing for lower league FK Sloga Novi Sad, that would latter be renamed back to FK Vojvodina

FK Vojvodina

FK Vojvodina is a football club from Novi Sad, Serbia. The club currently competes in the Serbian SuperLiga. FK Vojvodina is the third oldest football club in Serbia's SuperLiga, after OFK Beograd which was founded in 1911 and FK Javor which was founded in 1912.-History:FK Vojvodina was founded...

, where he played until 1951, when he, as a talented youngster, signed with Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

 giants FK Partizan

FK Partizan

Fudbalski klub Partizan is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup in 1978...

. He played there a total of eight seasons, until 1958, having played 313 matches and scored 101 goals, of which 138 were league matches and 38 league goals. He also won the 1957 Yugoslav Cup

Yugoslav Cup

The Yugoslav Cup, officially the Marshal Tito Cup, was one of two major football competitions in the former Yugoslavia, the other one being the Yugoslav League Championship. The Yugoslav Cup took place after the league championships when every competitive league in Yugoslavia had finished, in order...

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National team

Beside the four matches and two goals scored for the Yugoslavia B team, between 1954 and 1956, he played 12 matches and scored twice for the Yugoslavia national football team

Yugoslavia national football team

The Yugoslavia national football team represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in association football. It enjoyed a modicum of success in international competition. In 1992, during the Yugoslav wars, the team was suspended from international...

. His debut was on September 3, 1950 in a friendly match against Sweden played in Stockholm where, playing as a left-winger, scored the decisive goal that gave another win to Yugoslavia (2-1 win). His fairway match was played in Athens on May 5, 1957, against Greece, having ended with a goaless draw in which he was decisive having played as left-back in a defensive line formed together with Vladimir Beara

Vladimir Beara

Vladimir Beara is a retired Croatian-born Serb football player, as goalkeeper, and also football manager.-Early life:...

 and Tomislav Crnković

Tomislav Crnkovic

Tomislav Crnković was a Croatian footballer.He was born in Kotor in what was still the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. As a defender, he played for HAŠK, Metalac and Dinamo Zagreb. Abroad, he later played at Wiener Sportclub and Servette FC.With the Yugoslavian national team, he had 51 caps...

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Private life

After leaving Partizan, he continued playing for some time in West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

, where after retiring, continued living there as a dentist.

External sources

• Profile at Serbian Federation site.
• Profile at Playerhistory.