{"id":4725,"date":"2025-04-19T16:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asport.com.ng\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2025-04-19T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:33:57","slug":"former-international-nikola-pokrivac-dies-at-39-in-a-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asport.com.ng\/?p=4725","title":{"rendered":"Former international Nikola Pokrivac dies at 39 in a road accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>Croatian football is in mourning this Saturday. Former international player Nikola Pokrivac, notably passed through AS Monaco in the 2008-2009 season (36 games), died in a car accident at the age of 39, the federation announced. The accident occurred Friday in Karlovac, about fifty kilometers southwest of Zagreb.<\/p>\n<h2>Two teammates in serious condition<\/h2>\n<p>Defensive midfielder, Pokrivac had to end his professional career at 30 due to Hodgkin lymphoma (cancer of a type of white blood cells called lymphocytes). However, he continued to play in amateur clubs in Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>He had evolved in particular at Dinamo Zagreb and Red Bull Salzburg, with a passage by Ligue 1 so in the meantime. He had 15 selections with Croatia, playing Euro 2008. Two teammates who accompanied him in the car are in critical condition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-placeholder\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper u-hidden\">\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" data-lang=\"fr_FR\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">With great sadness and disbelief, we received the news of a serious car accident in Karlovac, in which, unfortunately, our former player Nikola Pokrivac lost his life.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas will forever remain part of Dinamo&#39;s family &#8211; as a talented midfielder, a fighter on the ground and a great heart man. For blue\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lCjyvFibZy\">pic.twitter.com\/lCjyvFibZy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; GNK Dinamo (@gnkdinamo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gnkdinamo\/status\/1913326202003116321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p-xxl@xs border-color-grey-200 radius-l@xs cmp-placeholder u-hidden\">\n<p class=\"mb-m@xs text-l@xs\">By clicking on<span class=\"ml-xxs@xs font-weight-bold@xs\">&#8220;I accept&#8221;<\/span>you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and thus have access to the content of our partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-xl@xs text-s@xs\">More information on the cookie management pagepolitics<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"mx-auto@xs flex@xs items-center@xs justify-center@xs gap-xxs@xs c-btn c-btn--primary cmp-button\">I accept<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNikola was a great footballer, who lived football until his last moments and who has shown great courage by overcoming a terrible disease. It is a great loss for our football, and particularly painful for her family, &#8220;wrote the Croatian federation in her press release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Croatian football is in mourning this Saturday. 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