Dušan Ivković

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Dušan Ivković

Dušan Ivković, while working as the head coach of the Serbian national team in 2011.
Personal information
Born (1943-10-29) October 29, 1943
Belgrade, Serbia
Nationality Serbian
Career history
As player:
1958–1968 BKK Radnički
As coach:
1978–1980 KK Partizan
1980–1982 Aris
1982–1984 BKK Radnički
1984–1987 KK Šibenik
1987–1990 KK Vojvodina
1991–1993 PAOK
1994–1996 Panionios
1996–1999 Olympiacos
1999–2001 AEK Athens
2002–2005 CSKA Moscow
2005–2007 Dynamo Moscow
2010–2012 Olympiacos
2008–2013 Serbia
Career highlights and awards

As head coach:

Medals
Competitor for  Yugoslavia and  Serbia
Men's Basketball
FIBA EuroBasket
Gold 1989 Yugoslavia National Team
Gold 1991 Italy National Team
Gold 1995 Greece National Team
Silver 2009 Poland National Team
Summer Olympic Games
Silver 1988 South Korea National Team
FIBA World Cup
Gold 1990 Argentina National Team

Dušan "Duda" Ivković (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Ивковић "Дуда"; born October 29, 1943 in Belgrade) is a Serbian professional basketball coach. He was the head coach of the Serbian national basketball team from 2008 to 2013. He is also a former professional basketball player. In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors.

Career

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

Ivković has coached in the following clubs: Radnički Belgrade, Partizan Belgrade, Aris Thessaloníki, Šibenik, Vojvodina Novi Sad, PAOK Thessaloníki, Panionios, Olympiacos Piraeus, AEK Athens, CSKA Moscow, and Dynamo Moscow.

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

Personal life

Dušan Ivković's elder brother Slobodan "Piva" Ivković, was also a famous basketball player and coach.[1] Ivković is related to the famous Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla. Ivković's maternal grandmother, Olga Mandić, and Tesla's mother, Đuka Mandić, were first cousins.[2][3] Coincidentally, Tesla died the same year that Ivković was born.

Ivković is a record holding pigeon racer.

Clubs

Playing career

Head coach

  • 1978-80: KK Partizan: Yugoslav League
  • 1980-82: Aris: Greek League
  • 1982-84: BKK Radnički: Yugoslav League
  • 1984-87: KK Šibenik: Yugoslav League
  • 1987-90: KK Vojvodina: Yugoslav League
  • 1991-93: PAOK: Greek League
  • 1994-96: Panionios: Greek League
  • 1996-99: Olympiacos: Greek League
  • 1999-01: AEK Athens: Greek League
  • 2002-05: CSKA Moscow: Russian SuperLeague
  • 2005-07: Dynamo Moscow: Russian SuperLeague
  • 2010-12: Olympiacos: Greek League

Head coaching career with Yugoslav and Serbian national teams

  • 1988-95: Yugoslavian national basketball team
  • 2008-2013: Serbian national basketball team

Championships and medals as head coach

KK Partizan

  • Yugoslav League (1): 1978-79
  • Yugoslav Cup (1): 1978-79
  • Korać Cup (1): 1978–79

PAOK

  • Greek League (1): 1991-92

Olympiacos

AEK Athens

  • Greek Cup (2): 1999–2000, 2000-01
  • Saporta Cup (1): 1999–2000

CSKA Moscow

Dynamo Moscow

  • Eurocup (1): 2005–06

Yugoslav and Serbian national teams

Championships and medals as an assistant head coach

Yugoslav national team

Notes

  1. ↑ Euroleague - The excitement starts here.
  2. ↑ B92.rs - Dušan Ivković - Svugde nosim svoj krst (Serbian).
  3. ↑ Legenda dana - Dušan Ivković; Blic, 4 September 2010,

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
United States Lute Olson		 FIBA World Championship
Winning Coach
1990 		Succeeded by
United States Don Nelson
Preceded by
Greece Kostas Politis
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Svetislav Pešić		 EuroBasket
Winning Coach
1989, 1991
1995 		Succeeded by
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Svetislav Pešić
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Željko Obradović
Preceded by
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Božidar Maljković
Serbia Željko Obradović		 Euroleague
Winning Coach
1997
2012 		Succeeded by
Italy Ettore Messina
Greece Giorgos Bartzokas
Serbia squad – EuroBasket 2009 – Silver medal
Serbia squad – EuroBasket 2011 – 8th place
Serbia squad – EuroBasket 2013 – 7th place
Olympiacos B.C. 1996–97 Euroleague Champions
Olympiacos B.C. 2011–12 Euroleague Champions

35 Players

10 Coaches

5 Referees

  • Artenik Aradabjian
  • Mikhail Davidov
  • Lubomir Kotleba
  • Yvan Mainini
  • Costas Rigas
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