FORMER Croatia star Nikola Pokrivac has been killed in a car accident aged just 39.
The ex-Monaco and RB Salzburg midfielder won 15 international caps from 2008 to 2010.
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Pokrivac returned to football last year after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2015.
He joined lower league Croatian side NK Vojnic and was with three teammates when the crash occured.
The four-vehicle collision occurred in Karlovac in central Croatia on Friday evening.
Croatian Football Federation president Marijan Kustics said: “Nikola was a great football player, who lived football until his last moment in this world, and who showed great courage in life by overcoming a terrible disease.
“This is a great loss for our football community, and especially painful for the family.”
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