Aleksandar Đorđević
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Competitor for  FR Yugoslavia |
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| Silver | 1996 Atlanta | FR Yugoslavia | |
Aleksandar "Saša" Đorđević (Sasha Djordjevic) (Serbian: Александар "Саша" Ђорђевић) (born August 26, 1967, in Belgrade) is a retired Serbian basketball player. He is 6'2" (188 cm) and has played 108 games for the National basketball team of Yugoslavia. Djordjevic started his basketball career in the IX-th gymnasium in Belgrade, where he was a part of the high school basketball team that won the city basketball tournament in 1986. Professionally, Djordjevic played for KK Partizan, Philips, Teamsystem, Portland Trail Blazers, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Scavolini Pesaro.
Some of the honors Djordjevic has won as a player are:
- Yugoslavia League — 1987, 1992
- Yugoslavia Cup — 1989, 1992
- European Cup — 1992
- Spanish League — 1997, 2000
- Radivoj Korać Cup — 1989, 1993, 1999
- Olympic Games silver medal — 1996
- World Championships gold medal — 1998, 2002
- Eurobasket:
His last-second three-point shots in the European Cup final (for Partizan), and on the match against Croatia (for national team), decided the winner, and Đorđević is mostly remembered because of that.
He is one of the ambassadors of good will, one of the founders of humanitarian organization Group Seven, and the president of the Belgrade Marathon.
He has retired from professional basketball on July 3rd, 2005 with an exhibition game in front of the home crowd in Belgrade, in which many of his co-players and once fierce opponents took part.
On January 25, 2006, Djordjevic was named head coach of one of his former teams, Armani Jeans Milano. He has dual citizenship; Serbian and Spanish.
