title: Ante Mladinić
text: # 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.
  
  