He started playing in 1944 when the war was approaching its end, when he joined one of Zagreb´s major clubs, HAŠK.
Solving this way the mandatory army conscription, Kobe moved from Zagreb to Zemun, located just in the outskirts of capital Belgrade.
[2] Naša Krila, however, suffered the destiny of the Zemun's military aircraft industry, which the authorities decided to shot down and move to Mostar, in southern SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the factories were reopened as SOKO and begin production in 1950, the year Naša krila played its last season before ceasing to exist.
His spent three seasons at Osijek as a player, and after retirement stayed on at the club as a youth coach.
He also later had managing stints at lower-tier local teams such as Sloga Đurđenovci and TIKO Osijek.