In the summer of 1937, he transferred to Hajduk Split, and played two seasons for the club's youth team.
For a brief period during the 1942–1943 season Kokeza played for HAŠK Zagreb, but he rejoined Hajduk at the end of the war.
The right back played 625 matches for Hajduk Split scoring 8 goals,[1] and had great success at his beloved Hajduk, the first coming in the 1940–1941 season when the club won the Croatian Championship, and qualified for the Yugoslavian National Championship for the first time in the club's history.
Despite playing twice for Yugoslavia, against Czechoslovakia in 1946 and against Egypt in 1952,[2] Kokeza did not have much luck at international level as his abilities deserved.
However, after four defeats in four matches at the 1969 Jaam-e-Doosti Friendship Cup in Tehran, he spent the remainder of his contract coaching the Iraqi military team.