Ivica Miljkovic
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Ivica Miljković is a former Croatia
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n football
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 player.

Miljković made a name for himself playing for Dinamo Zagreb and in the period from 1969 to 1977 he appeared in a total of 232 Yugoslav First League
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 matches, scoring 24 goals for the Blues. In 1977 he moved to NK Osijek
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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
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 side Chicago Sting
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, helping them win the 1981 NASL championship.

He was capped once for Yugoslavia
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, in a Euro 1976 qualifier against Northern Ireland
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 held on 16 March 1975 at Windsor Park
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.

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  • Ivica Miljković at the Serbia national football team
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