Dragan Holcer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Dragan Holcer

Serbian footballer

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1945

Place of Birth: Zwiesel, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 23-Sep-2015

Profession: association football player

Nationality: Serbia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Dragan Holcer

  • Dragan Holcer (19 January 1945 – 23 September 2015) was a Yugoslav association football defender.Holcer was born in captivity in a Nazi prison camp to Slovenian father Franc Holcer and Italian-Austrian mother Ida Orelli who lived in NiÅ¡.
  • 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 NiÅ¡ 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, died in Split on 23 September 2015, aged 70.

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