Ivica Miljković (1 August 1947 in

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– 23 September 2005) was a former

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player.

Club career

Miljković made a name for himself playing for

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and in the period from 1969 to 1977 he appeared in a total of 232

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League ( Bosnian: Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Прва савезна лига у фудбалу, Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, , , , , ) was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) ...

matches, scoring 24 goals for the Blues. In 1977, he moved to

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where he spent the following three seasons. In 1980, he went abroad and spent the last two years of his career at NASL side

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, helping them win the 1981 NASL championship.

International career

He was capped once for

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, in a Euro 1976 qualifier against

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held on 16 March 1975 at

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in which he came on late for Jure Jerković.

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* * 1947 births 2005 deaths Footballers from Slavonski Brod Men's association football defenders Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers GNK Dinamo Zagreb players NK Osijek players Chicago Sting (NASL) players Yugoslav First League players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in the United States {{Croatia-footy-defender-stub