Dragan Holcer

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Dragan Holcer (born 19 January 1945 near Berlin, Nazi Germany) is a Yugoslav retired football defender.

Holcer was born in captivity in a Nazi concentration camp to Slovenian father and Serbian mother. Both his parents fought in World War II as part of Yugoslav Partisans. His father was killed in battle while his pregnant mother was captured and imprisoned in Germany.

Shortly after the war ended his mother took him 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.