Joško Domorocki

Who was Joško Domorocki?

Josip "Joško" Domorocki was a Bosnian football player. He was born in Sarajevo, where he lived for most of his life, and played for several clubs in the Yugoslav First League. He also trained and worked as a locksmith.

When he was 17, he started playing for FK Željezničar Sarajevo. Two years later, he went to Belgrade to serve in the army. While in Belgrade, he played for SK Jugoslavija and for the B squad of the Yugoslav national team. In 1940, he returned to Sarajevo and played for SAŠK. When the World War II ended in 1945 he played with FK Udarnik, and later with Jedinstvo Sušak. He returned to Željezničar in 1946 and played with them until 1952.

He is particularly remembered for his defiance of the authorities over the creation of FK Sarajevo. When this team was created in 1946 by the merge of FK Udarnik and OFK Sloboda, several of the best players at FK Željezničar were ordered to play for the new club, to represent Sarajevo and Bosnia-Herzegovina at a national level. Despite the tough attitude of the new communist government towards dissent, Domorocki refused, and continued to play for Željezničar, where he stayed for six years as a player, and then worked subsequently.