Rudolf Hitrec was a Croatian footballer and international manager.

He played for Concordia Zagreb from 1919 to 1921 and Građanski Zagreb from 1921 to 1930. He won the national championship of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

Yugoslav First League

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 in 1923, 1926 and 1928.

Hitrec played for the Yugoslav national team

Yugoslavia national football team

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 once in 1926 against Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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 in Zagreb

Zagreb

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. In 1941 he became the president of the Croatian Football Federation

Croatian Football Federation

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 and also served as the manager of the Croatian national team

Croatia national football team

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 from 1940 to 1943. After the Second World War he ended his career in football and worked at the Dubrava Clinical Hospital as a doctor.