Sinisa Mihajlovic, soccer player and coach, dies at 53

A fullback and free kick specialist, Mihajlovic was on the Red Star Belgrade team that won the European Cup in 1991.

The ex-Yugoslavia defender, who won the European Cup with Red Star Belgrade as a player in 1991, first announced he had leukaemia in 2019.

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Javier Zanetti, who played with Mihajlovic at Inter Milan, said: "He was a good friend and now he is gone. He has done so much for football - big hug to his family."

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