He is considered one of the greatest Croatian players of all time[1] and played for much of his career for Dinamo Zagreb, whom he helped in winning the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1967.

[2] He is considered one of the greatest Croatian football players of all time[1] and a leader of Dinamo's golden generation that won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1967 and was runner-up four years earlier in 1963.

[3] When other teammates and guest started to wake up they found Lamza drunk in the lobby and one of Dinamo's officials (Karlo Žagar) ordered the waitress to take him back to his room so others would not see him in the state he was in.

Later, when Lamza woke up, he was still intoxicated and found the doors locked and went into the balcony where he fell down, hitting the chair with his shoulder and a concrete floor with the right side of his head.

[2] Later he had a couple of unsuccessful and short lived spells at clubs home and abroad (Châteauroux, Rijeka, 1860 München, Melbourne Croatia), but never fully demonstrated the level of football he did prior to the accident.

[5] Lamza once stated that he was probably saved when Dinamo's patronage Zdravko Mamić and head coach at the time Miroslav Blažević offered him to work for the club, at the beginning of the nineties, as he had only around €200 of pension from which he did not know how he would have been able to survive.