Dragan Holcer

Dragan Holcer

Personal information
Date of birth	19 January 1945
Place of birth	Zwiesel (Berggießhübel), Germany
Date of death	23 September 2015 (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)
National team
1965–1974	Yugoslavia	52	(0)
Honours Men's Football Representing  Yugoslavia European Championship 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 association football defender.^[1]

Holcer was born in captivity in a Nazi prison camp to Slovenian father Franc Holcer and Italian-Austrian mother Ida Orelli 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 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

1. "Dragan Holcer". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
2. "Dragan Holcer kod Mosora: Dvojac Kirigin-Burazin bio je Hajdukovo blago" (in Croatian). slobodnadalmacija.hr. 5 February 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
3. "Nakon teške bolesti preminuo Dragan Holcer > Slobodna Dalmacija > Hajduk". slobodnadalmacija.hr.

External links

• Serbian national football team website (Serbian)