Ivan Bek
Bek in 1928
Personal information
Full name Ivan Beck
Date of birth (1909-10-29)29 October 1909
Place of birth Belgrade, Serbia
Date of death 2 June 1963(1963-06-02) (aged 53)
Place of death Sète, France
Height 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1925–1928 BSK Beograd 50 (51)
1928 Mačva Šabac
1928–1931 Sète
1931–1932 Urania Genève Sport 16 (16)
1932–1935 Sète 69 (33)
1935–1939 Saint-Étienne 109 (93)
1940–1943 Nîmes
1943–1944 AS Aix
Total 254 (193)
International career
1927–1931 Yugoslavia 8 (4)
1935–1937 France 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ivan "Ivica" Bek (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Ивица Бек; 29 October 1909 – 2 June 1963), also known as Yvan Beck, was a Serbian-French football player.

He was part of Yugoslavia's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics[1] and at the 1930 FIFA World Cup.

Club career

Bek was born to a German father, and a Czech mother in the Serbian capital Belgrade borough of Čubura. Aged 16, he started playing in BSK Belgrade where he scored 51 goals in 50 matches. In 1928, Bek moved to Mačva, and soon proceeded to French FC Sète. In his first season, he reached the cup finals, but lost 2–0 against Montpellier. Next year in cup finals against RC France, was victorious for Sète (3–1) with Bek scoring two decisive goals in extra time. Four years later with the same club, Bek was part of the first team that win the Double in France. Bek helped Yugoslavia get third place in the first FIFA world cup in Uruguay. Bek and his team went on a train from Belgrade to Marseille. When they came to Marseille they went on a crew ship to Uruguay in the second class.

International career

Internationally, Bek represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (seven caps, four goals) and France (five caps). For Yugoslavia he debuted in 1927 against Bulgaria (2–0), participated Olympic tournament in 1928 in Amsterdam and played in the 1930 FIFA World Cup for Yugoslavia scoring three goals. In 1933, Bek took French citizenship and renamed himself Yvan Beck and in February 1935 he was picked for the first time for the Equipe Tricolore.

International goals

Scores and results list Yugoslavia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Bek goal.
List of international goals scored by Ivan Bek
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
114 July 1930Estadio Gran Parque Central, Montevideo, Uruguay Brazil2–02–11930 FIFA World Cup
217 July 1930Estadio Gran Parque Central, Montevideo, Uruguay Bolivia1–04–01930 FIFA World Cup
33–0

Post-playing career

During the Second World War, Bek was a member of the French Resistance. After the war, he worked as a dockworker in Sète, where he died from a heart attack.

Honours

FC Sète

  • Champion of France: 1934
  • French Cup: 1930, 1934

References

  1. ↑ "Ivan "Ivica" Bek". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
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