Nikola Jokanović ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Јокановић; 1961 – 26 November 2006) was a South African-Serbian professional

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player and coach.

Career

Jokanović started his playing career with a Užice-based team

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(nowadays Sloboda Užice). In 1980, he joined

Crvena zvezda Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional football club based in B ...

where he played for five seasons, until 1985. Afterward, he also played for two Belgrade-based teams IMT and Radnički. In the mid-1990s, Jokanović moved to

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. In 2006, he was a

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for the

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of the

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(PBL). On 26 November 2006, Jokanović died shortly after leaving the court in a PBL match against Olympians in

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. He collapsed in a dressing room at halftime.

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