Joško Domorocki

Joško Domorocki

Personal information
Full name	Josip Domorocki
Date of birth	1917
Place of birth	Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	1992 (aged 74–75)
Place of death	Split, Croatia
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1938–1940	Željezničar Sarajevo
1940	Jugoslavija
1940–194x	SAŠK Napredak
1945	FK Udarnik
1945–1946	Jedinstvo Sušak
1946–1952	Željezničar Sarajevo
Managerial career
1960-1961	Željezničar Sarajevo
	Rudar Breza
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Josip "Joško" Domorocki (1917–1992) was a Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer. He was born in Sarajevo, where he lived for most of his life, and played for several clubs in the Yugoslav First League. He also trained and worked as a locksmith.

Playing career

When Domorocki was 17, he started playing for FK Željezničar Sarajevo. Two years later, he went to Belgrade to serve in the army. While in Belgrade, he played for SK Jugoslavija and for the B squad of the Yugoslavia national team. In 1940, he returned to Sarajevo and played for SAŠK. When World War II ended in 1945, he played with FK Udarnik, and later with Jedinstvo Sušak. He returned to Željezničar in 1946 and played with them until 1952.

He is particularly remembered for his defiance of the authorities over the creation of FK Sarajevo. When this team was created (as SD Torpedo) in 1946 by the merge of FK Udarnik and OFK Sloboda, several of the best players at FK Željezničar were ordered to play for the new club, to represent Sarajevo and Bosnia-Herzegovina at a national level. Despite the tough attitude of the new communist government towards dissent, Domorocki refused (even after the offer of a flat and two new suits, which was a serious incentive at that time), and continued to play for Željezničar, where he stayed for six years as a player, and then worked subsequently.

Managerial career

Domorocki later coached FK Rudar Breza.

Death

Domorocki died in a car accident in Split in 1992.