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Dragan Holcer
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Personal information
Date of birth (1945-01-19)19 January 1945
Place of birth Zwiesel (Berggießhübel), Nazi Germany
Date of death 23 September 2015(2015-09-23) (aged 70)
Place of death Split, Croatia
Playing position 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
Men's Football
Representing  Yugoslavia
European Championship
Silver 1968 Italy Team
  • Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Dragan Holcer (19 January 1945 – 23 September 2015) was a Yugoslav footballer who played as a defender.

Holcer was born in captivity in a Nazi prison camp to Slovenian father Franc Holcer and Austrian mother Ida Orelli of mixed Austrian-Italian descent who lived in Niš. 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.

International career

He made his debut for Yugoslavia in a September 1965 World Cup qualification match away against Luxembourg and earned a total of 52 caps, scoring no goals. He was a participant at Euro 1968 and his final international was an April 1974 friendly match against the Soviet Union.

Death

Holcer, who was considered to be a legend of Hajduk Split, died in Split on 23 September 2015, aged 70.

See also

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