Ante Vulić
Ante Vulić was a Croatian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
He spent the entirety of his 11-year career with Hajduk Split, winning two Yugoslav league titles in 1952 and 1955. Although a talented goalkeeper, for a great part of his career he had to be a substitute to Vladimir Beara, who was named by legendary Soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin as the greatest keeper of all time. However, he has never complained about that misfortune. According to Beara himself, Vulić was his best and most loyal friend, who even twice picked a fight to protect him. He still managed to become the second-most-capped Hajduk Split goalkeeper ever, with 339 games, after Radomir Vukčević. Despite being a long-time substitute to Beara, he was also known as an excellent penalty taker. Beara claimed that he has never seen a better penalty taker than Ante Vulić.
International career
Vulić was capped in the only international game the Croatia national team played while Croatia was part of Yugoslavia, a 5–2 win against Indonesia in Zagreb, on 12 September 1956.
Vulić's son, Zoran, also became a long-time player for Hajduk Split, the team's captain and later football manager, coaching Hajduk several times. Zoran also played internationally for Yugoslavia and Croatia and they are the only father and son who played for Croatia before its independence from Yugoslavia was established.