Božo Broketa
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Božo Broketa was a Yugoslavian
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...

 football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 player. He spent most of his career with Hajduk Split.

Broketa is well known for sending Hajduk's rival Dinamo Zagreb
Dinamo Zagreb
GNK Dinamo Zagreb, commonly referred to as Dinamo Zagreb , or by their nickname Modri are a Croatian football club based in Zagreb. They play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Croatian football, having won thirteen Croatian championship titles, ten...

 a congratulatory telegram after its 1951 championship victory over Serbian side FK Crvena Zvezda stating Dok je srca, bit će i Croatije (While there is heart, there will be Croatia too).

A football academy in Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
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is named after him.
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