Dušan Ivković

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Dušan Ivković
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Dušan Ivković, while coach of Serbian senior team in 2011
Anadolu Efes Istanbul
Position Head coach
League Turkish Basketball League
Euroleague
Personal information
Born (1943-10-29) October 29, 1943 (age 80)
Belgrade, Serbia
Nationality Serbian
Listed height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[1]
Listed weight 198 lb (90 kg)[1]
Career information
Playing career 1958–1968
Position Point guard[2]
Coaching career 1978–present
Career history
As player:
1958–1968 Radnički Belgrade
As coach:
1978–1980 Partizan
1980–1982 Aris
1982–1984 Radnički Belgrade
1984–1987 Šibenka
1987–1995 Yugoslavia (FR Yugoslavia 1992-95)
1987–1990 Vojvodina
1991–1993 PAOK
1994–1996 Panionios
1996–1999 Olympiacos
1999–2001 AEK
2002–2005 CSKA Moscow
2005–2007 Dynamo Moscow
2010–2012 Olympiacos
2008–2013 Serbia
2014–present Anadolu Efes
Career highlights and awards
As head coach:

Dušan "Duda" Ivković (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан "Дуда" Ивковић; born October 29, 1943) is a Serbian professional basketball coach who currently serves as head coach for Anadolu Efes of the Turkish Basketball League. He served as head coach of the Serbian national basketball team from 2008 to 2013 and Yugoslavian national basketball team from 1987[1][3] (Serbia and Montenegro competed under the name FR Yugoslavia following the breakup of Yugoslavia) to 1995.[3] He is also a former professional basketball player and current president of the Serbian club BKK Radnički. In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors.

Playing career

Ivković played club basketball at the senior level, from 1958 to 1968,[citation needed] with the Yugoslav League club Radnički Belgrade.

Club coaching career

Ivković has coached the following clubs: Radnički Belgrade, Partizan, Aris, Šibenka, Vojvodina, PAOK, Panionios, Olympiacos, AEK Athens, CSKA Moscow, and Dynamo Moscow.

In 1997, he was named the best European professional basketball coach,[citation needed] after having coached several clubs to domestic championships and to the Euroleague Final Four.

In 2014, he signed a two-year contract with the Turkish team Anadolu Efes Istanbul, starting to coach from the 2014–15 season.[4]

National team coaching

Yugoslavia Universiade team coach and national team assistant

In summer 1983, Ivković coached the Yugoslavia team featuring 18-year-old Dražen Petrović at the Universiade in Edmonton, getting silver after losing to Canada in the final.

Four years later, barely three weeks after assisting Krešimir Ćosić at Eurobasket 1987, Ivković got to coach Yugoslavia again at the Universiade, this time at home in Zagreb. The team, featuring now 22-year-old European superstar Petrović, won gold in dominant fashion.

Yugoslavia head coach

Also in 1987, Ivković succeeded Ćosić as head coach of Yugoslavian national basketball team and held the post until the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991.

FR Yugoslavia

Ivković then assumed the head coaching position of FR Yugoslavia. He guided the team to a gold medal at EuroBasket 1995, in the country's first official appearance since UN lifted sanctions against FR Yugoslavia. Following EuroBasket, Željko Obradović took over as head coach, while Ivković assumed the role of team manager. Both Obradović and Ivković remained in their posts until jointly resigning in November 2000, following a 6th-place finish in the 2000 Olympic Games.[5]

Personal life

Dušan Ivković's elder brother Slobodan "Piva" Ivković, was also a famous basketball player and coach.[6] Ivković is related to the famous Serbian American scientist Nikola Tesla. Ivković's maternal grandmother, Olga Mandić, and Tesla's mother, Đuka Mandić, were first cousins.[2] Coincidentally, Tesla died the same year that Ivković was born.

Ivković is a record holding pigeon racer.[2]

Career achievements

Club competitions

As head coach:

National team competitions

As head coach:

As an assistant coach:

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Marušić, Igor. Male tajne velikih majstora: Dušan Ivković. Studio magazine (via Yugopapir), June 1989. (Serbo-Croatian)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Pavić, Zoran. Dušan Ivković – Svugde nosim svoj krst. Status magazine (via b92.net), November 2008. (Serbian)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Serbia Media Guide EuroBasket 2013, page 23. kss.rs.
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  5. Ivković i Obradović podneli ostavke. Tanjug (via srbija.gov.rs), 21 November 2000. (Serbian)
  6. Stanković, Vladimir. The excitement starts here. euroleague.net, 29 January 2010

External links

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