Miloš Beleslin

Miloš Beleslin (Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Белеслин) (8 September 1901 – 7 March 1984) was a Serbian Yugoslavia international football player. He was among the best defenders in the Yugoslav First League during the 1920s however he was overshadowed by the players from the major Yugoslav clubs.

Miloš Beleslin

Personal information
Date of birth	8 September 1901
Place of birth	Sereg, Austro-Hungary
Date of death	7 March 1984 (aged 82)
Place of death	Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1917–1919	Szegedi AK
1919–1928	NAK Novi Sad
1928–1930	SAND Subotica
1930–1933	ŽAK Subotica
National team
1928–1930	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	8	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Born in Sereg, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, he started playing in Szeged in Szegedi AK. His played his first official match on May 5, 1917. In 1919 his parents moved to the city of Novi Sad in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and he joined NAK Novi Sad. Later he would play with other Yugoslav top-league clubs, SAND Subotica and ŽAK Subotica. He played his last official match in 1939 on the day of his anniversary.[1]

National team

Miloš Beleslin played 8 matches for the Yugoslav national team having scored once.[1][2] He received a call to represent Yugoslavia at the 1930 FIFA World Cup however as he was playing in Subotica, his representative subassociation, the Subotica Football Subassociation, boycotted the national team, not allowing him to travel to Uruguay.[1]

References

1. Miloš Beleslin at Reprezentacija.rs
2. Miloš Beleslin at National-Football-Teams.com