Career
He played for Concordia Zagreb from 1919 to 1921 and Građanski Zagreb from 1921 to 1930. Hitrec played for the Yugoslav national team once in 1926 against Bulgaria in Zagreb. In 1941 he became the president of the Croatian Football Federation and also served as the manager of the Croatian national team from 1940 to 1943.
After the Second World War he ended his career in football and worked at the Dubrava Clinical Hospital as a doctor.