Miljenko Kovačić (19 March 1973 – 20 August 2005) was a Croatian football player. His nickname was "The Son of the Wind".
Club career
He played professionally for quite a few teams, most notably for
Dinamo Zagreb
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with which he was part of the national championship victory in 1995–1996 and
Brescia
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(Italy). Certain choices he made in his professional career were interesting, at one point he quit playing because of religious reasons (he was a member of the
Hare Krishna
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* International Society for Krishna Consciousness
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religion) stating money being the root of evil and that he was content with what he had. This was a shock to his employer at the time, the professional Italian team Brescia. Kovačić did return to professional soccer briefly in 2001, but quit again in 2005 due to family reasons.
Death
He lost his life in a motorcycle accident in 2005.
Nogometni magazin / www.
Nogometni-magazin.com. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
References
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1973 births
2005 deaths
Footballers from Zagreb
Men's association football forwards
Croatian men's footballers
GNK Dinamo Zagreb players
Brescia Calcio players
NK Vrbovec players
NK Slaven Belupo players
Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C. players
Croatian Football League players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Israeli Premier League players
Croatian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Israel
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Israel
Road incident deaths in Croatia
Motorcycle road incident deaths
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