Petar Lončarević ( sr-Cyrl, Петар Лончаревић; 20 November 1907 – 30 March 1978) was a Serbian

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who played two matches for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia national team. While attending a

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between Olimpija Ljubljana and

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in the spring of 1978, he got into an argument with fans of the

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team and one of them struck him in the head with a blunt object. He lost consciousness and was hospitalized where he was placed in a coma. After not regaining consciousness, he died seventeen days later at the age of 70.

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