Dragan Holcer Football player

Dragan Holcer (born 19 January 1945 in Zwiesel) is a Yugoslav retired 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 Niš. His father fought in World War II as part 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.

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 19, 1945
Birth place
Nazi Germany , Zwiesel

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Football player

position
Defender (association football)
teams
FC Schalke 04
Yugoslavia national football team
FK Radnički Niš
VfB Stuttgart
HNK Hajduk Split

Dragan Holcer on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.reprezentacija.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1092&Itemid=12