Dragan Holcer
Dragan Holcer (19 January 1945 – 23 September 2015) was a Yugoslav footballer who played as a defender.[1]
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Date of birth | 19 January 1945 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Zwiesel (Berggießhübel), Nazi Germany | |||||||||||||||
Date of death | 23 September 2015 70) | (aged|||||||||||||||
Place of death | Split, Croatia | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1963–1967 | Radnički Niš | 96 | (8) | |||||||||||||
1967–1975 | Hajduk Split | 215 | (0) | |||||||||||||
1975–1981 | VfB Stuttgart | 179 | (2) | |||||||||||||
1981–1982 | Schalke 04 | 12 | (0) | |||||||||||||
Total | 502 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||
1965–1974 | Yugoslavia | 52 | (0) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Holcer was born in captivity in a Nazi prison camp to Slovenian father Franc Holcer and Austrian mother Ida Orelli of Italian descent who lived in Niš.[2] His father fought in World War II as part of Yugoslav Partisans. His father was killed in battle while his pregnant mother was rounded up in Slovenia and imprisoned in Nazi Germany along with her three daughters. Shortly after the war ended his mother took the family to her hometown Niš in Serbia where Holcer grew up.
On the national level he played for Yugoslavia national team (52 matches), and was a participant at Euro 1968.
Holcer, who was considered to be a legend of Hajduk Split,[3] died in Split on 23 September 2015, aged 70.[3]
References
- "Dragan Holcer". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- "Dragan Holcer kod Mosora: Dvojac Kirigin-Burazin bio je Hajdukovo blago" (in Croatian). slobodnadalmacija.hr. 5 February 2011. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- "Nakon teške bolesti preminuo Dragan Holcer > Slobodna Dalmacija > Hajduk". slobodnadalmacija.hr.
External links
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- Serbian national football team website (in Serbian)