Ante Mladinić
# Ante Mladinić

Ante "Biće" Mladinić (1 October 1929 – 13 June 2002) was a Croatian football manager.

He had a modest playing career for Hajduk Split, for whom he scored 43 goals in 146 matches, and Lokomotiva Zagreb.

## Managerial career

Later, as coach, he had spells at NK Zagreb, Hajduk, FK Partizan and the Yugoslavia national football team in the mid-1970s. He ended his career as a staff member for Bordeaux, where he discovered players such as Bixente Lizarazu.

He died in Zagreb in 2002 following a long battle with throat cancer.

