Former Croatian footballer Pokrivac dies in car crash

Paris: Former Croatian international footballer Nikola Pokrivac has been killed in a car crash aged 39, the country s national football federation ann...

Paris: Former Croatian international footballer Nikola Pokrivac has been killed in a car crash aged 39, the country's national football federation announced on Saturday.

Local media said he was in a vehicle with three team-mates from lower league club NK Vojnic when they were involved in a four-vehicle collision in Karlovac in central Croatia on Friday evening.

His team-mates were taken to hospital with serious injuries while it was reported a person in another car also died.

Pokrivac -- capped 15 times and a member of the squad that reached the Euro 2008 quarter-finals -- achieved the Croatian domestic double three times with Dinamo Zagreb. He won the 2010 Austrian title with RB Salzburg.

Pokrivac, retired from professional football in 2015 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.