Engineer, composer and goalkeeper
Runjić was successful in everything he tried.
Zdenko Runjić, one of the greatest composers of popular Croatian music of the 20th century, had no musical education at all. He graduated in electronics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Split and worked as a manager of Jugoplastika for many years. In his career, he was also an assistant at the college where he studied, and he was better known to the public as the director of the publishing house MEI-INTERFEST and as the music editor of Radio Split. He founded the Melodies of the Croatian Adriatic music festival.
The general public did not know about his love for football. This versatile artist played as a goalkeeper for Hajduk as a boy. Later, he became more interested in handball and played for Handball Club Split, also in the position of goalkeeper, for five years. During his student days, the team was placed in the first league, but Runjić quickly left it because he was focused on his studies and unable to travel.
