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Date of birth (1927-08-23)August 23, 1927 Place of birth Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia Date of death 20 February 1957(1957-02-20) (aged 29) Place of death Sarajevo, FPR Yugoslavia Died 20 February 1957, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
Đuka Lovrić (born 23 August 1927 in Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia - died 20 February 1957 in Sarajevo, FPR Yugoslavia) was a Bosnian professional footballer. He fell in love with the game by watching his older brother, Bosnian footballer Franjo Lovrić, play. After the end of the war he joined newly-formed Sloboda with his brother and the two eventually joined FK Sarajevo which was formed a year later by the fusion of Sloboda and another Sarajevo-based side, Udarnik. He spent 9 years playing for FK Sarajevo during which time he earned 196 caps and scored 78 goals for the maroon-whites, earning him a call-up to the Yugoslavia national team for a friendly against England in Belgrade.
In the autumn of 1954 he became terminally ill and soon after had to retire from professional football at the age of 27. He played his last match for FK Sarajevo on 5 June 1955 against NK Zagreb.
Death
Lovrić died in Sarajevo, FPR Yugoslavia in 1957, at the age of just 30.