Basketball: legendary coach Dusan Ivkovic dies

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The legendary Yugoslav then Serbian basketball coach died Thursday in Belgrade at the age of 77, the Serbian Basketball Federation (KSS) announced on its website. Ivkovic led one of the most glorious generations of Yugoslav basketball including Croats Drazen Petrovic, Dino Radja and Toni Kukoc and Serbs Vlade Divac, Aleksandar Djordjevic, Zarko Paspalj and Predrag Danilovic. It was with United Yugoslavia that he won the World Cup in 1990 and two Euros in 1989 and 1991, the latter when the federation was already falling apart. He then continued as coach of the Serbs under different names: Yugoslavia then Serbia-Montenegro and finally Serbia. In 1992, following the vote of a United Nations resolution,Yugoslavia (reduced in reality to Serbia and Montenegro) had been prevented from participating in the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​where it announced itself as the biggest rival of the "

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It was ultimately the Croats who went to the final against Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson.

On his Olympic record he still has two silver medals in 1988 (with the unified team) and in 1996 (with only the Serbs and Montenegrins).

After 1995 and a new Euro title, Ivkovic took the post of general manager alongside coach Zeljko Obradovic until November 2000. He was also a great club coach.

Winner of two Euroleagues with Olympiakos (1997, 2012), he also took care of Partizan Belgrade, CSKA Moscow and Efes Istanbul, his last club (2014-2016), among others.

Born October 29, 1943 in Belgrade, Dusan Ivkovic made his debut as a player with Radnicki Belgrade, but he quickly became a coach at the age of 25, in 1968, taking care of the club's youth. . The KSS does not give any details on the causes of death. According to the private television channel N1, Ivkovic succumbed to "

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