Dragan Holcer

Dragan Holcer

Personal information
Date of birth	19 January 1945 (1945-01-19) (age 66)
Place of birth	Zwiesel, Nazi Germany
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 Competitor for  Yugoslavia European Championship Silver 1968 Italy Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

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.

References

• (Serbian) Serbian national football team website
• Interview with dragan Holcer

Persondata
Name	Holcer, Dragan
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	19 January 1945
Place of birth	Zwiesel, Nazi Germany
Date of death
Place of death