Summary
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 (aged 70) | ||||||||||||||||
| 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) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1965–1974 | Yugoslavia | 52 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Early life edit
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.[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.
International career edit
Holcer 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.[3]
Death edit
Holcer, who was considered to be a legend of Hajduk Split,[4] died in Split on 23 September 2015, aged 70.[4]
References edit
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ a b "Nakon teške bolesti preminuo Dragan Holcer > Slobodna Dalmacija > Hajduk". slobodnadalmacija.hr.
External links edit
- Dragan Holcer at FIFA (archived)
- Dragan Holcer at EU-Football.info
- Dragan Holcer at National-Football-Teams.com
- Dragan Holcer at Soccerway.com
- Dragan Holcer at WorldFootball.net
- Dragan Holcer at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
