Dušan Ivković

Dušan Ivković
Ivković coaching Serbia in 2011
Personal information
Born(1943-10-29)29 October 1943
Belgrade, German-occupied Serbia
Died16 September 2021(2021-09-16) (aged 77)
Belgrade, Serbia
NationalitySerbian
Listed height188 cm (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Listed weight90 kg (198 lb)[1]
Career information
Playing career1958–1968
PositionPoint guard
Coaching career1968–2016
Career history
As player:
1958–1968Radnički Belgrade
As coach:
1968–1977Radnički Belgrade (youth)
1977–1978Partizan (assistant)
1978–1980Partizan
1980–1982Aris
1982–1984Radnički Belgrade
1984–1987Šibenka
1987–1990Vojvodina
1988–1991Yugoslavia
1992–1995FR Yugoslavia
1991–1993PAOK
1994–1996Panionios
1996–1999Olympiacos
1999–2001AEK Athens
2002–2005CSKA Moscow
2005–2007Dynamo Moscow
2008–2013Serbia
2010–2012Olympiacos
2014–2016Anadolu Efes
Career highlights and awards
As head coach:

As assistant coach:

FIBA Hall of Fame
Medals
Men's basketball
Head coach for  Serbia
FIBA EuroBasket
Gold medal – first place 1995 Greece
Silver medal – second place 2009 Poland
Head coach for  Yugoslavia
FIBA EuroBasket
Gold medal – first place 1989 Yugoslavia
Gold medal – first place 1991 Italy
FIBA Basketball World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1990 Argentina
Summer Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1988 Seoul
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1987 Zagreb
Silver medal – second place 1983 Edmonton

Dušan "Duda" Ivković (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан "Дуда" Ивковић; 29 October 1943 – 16 September 2021) was a Serbian professional basketball player and coach. He served as head coach of the senior Serbian national basketball team from 2007 to 2013, and of the senior Yugoslavian national basketball team, from 1987[1][2] (Serbia and Montenegro competed as the FR Yugoslavia national team following the breakup of Yugoslavia) to 1995.[2] He was also the president of the Serbian club BKK Radnički.

In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors. He was elected to the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2017.[3] He was also named a EuroLeague Basketball Legend in 2017.[4][5]

Playing career

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A point guard, Ivković played 10 seasons of club basketball in Yugoslavia, from 1958 to 1968. He spent his entire club playing career with Radnički Belgrade. He retired as a player in 1968, and then joined Radnički Belgrade's youth system as a head coach.[6]

Club coaching career

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Radnički youth system

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After retirement in 1968, Ivković joined the youth system of Radnički Belgrade, as their junior head coach. In his third season with the club, 1973–74, he led the junior team to the Yugoslav Junior Championship title.

KK Partizan

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In 1977, he became an assistant coach for Partizan, working under the club's head coach at the time, Ranko Žeravica.[7] In 1978, Ivković got promoted to be Partizan's head coach, a position that he held for two years. With Partizan, he won the first trophies in his club coaching career. In the 1978–79 season, he won the European Small Triple Crown with Partizan, as he won the Yugoslav Championship, the Yugoslav Cup title, and the FIBA Korać Cup championship, all in the same season. Prior to that, Partizan had won only one major trophy (one Yugoslav Championship) in its history, and 1979 was thus a birth-year of what eventually would become the most successful club in Serbian basketball history.[8]

Aris

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In 1980, Ivković left Partizan to join Greek side Aris, where he also stayed for two seasons.

Return to Radnički

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After that, he returned to Radnički Belgrade, where he had previously spent his entire playing career.

Šibenka

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He then had a three-year stint with Šibenka.

KK Vojvodina

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After that, Ivković spent two seasons with Vojvodina.

PAOK

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Ivković returned to Greece in 1990, when he took over P.A.O.K., to which he brought the second and last Greek League championship in the club's history, in 1992.

Panionios

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After three years on the black-and-white bench, he moved to Athens-based Panionios.

Olympiacos

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In 1996, Ivkovic moved to Olympiacos. With Olympiacos, in the 1996–97 season, he brought the Red-Whites to their first European Triple Crown title. Olympiacos won that season's championship of the FIBA EuroLeague, at the 1997 FIBA EuroLeague Final Four, and also in that same season, the club won the Greek Basket League championship and the Greek Cup title.[8]

AEK

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After three years at Olympiacos, Ivković took over the city rival AEK, and he brought them the 2000 FIBA Saporta Cup championship.

CSKA Moscow

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Ivković moved from Greece to Russia, in the summer of 2002, when he came to CSKA Moscow, a club with a great tradition. He took over their head coaching job and also the club's basketball operations, at the same time. In the next three years, the Russian club reached the EuroLeague Final Four three times, won all three Russian Championships, and also one Russian Cup title.

Dynamo Moscow

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From there, he moved to Moscow's second largest club in 2005, Dynamo Moscow, for two seasons, where he won the 2006 ULEB Cup championship.[7] In the summer of 2007, Ivković decided to take a break from his club coaching career, and he was without a club for three years.

Return to Olympiacos

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He then returned to Olympiacos in 2010. With Olympiacos, he won the Greek Cup title in 2011, and also the 2012 the EuroLeague championship, at the 2012 EuroLeague Final Four. Olympiacos came back to win the EuroLeague championship, after they trailed CSKA Moscow by 19 points in the third quarter. They won the EuroLeague championship with a buzzer-beater basket by Georgios Printezis, from an assist by Vassilis Spanoulis, in the last seconds of the EuroLeague Final. Ivković also won the 2012 Greek League's championship, with Olympiacos a few weeks later, before leaving the team, after his contract expired at the end of the season.[8] He was named the Best Sports Coach in Greece for 2012.

Efes

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In 2014, Ivković signed a two-year contract with the Turkish Super League team Anadolu Efes, with him starting to coach the club in the 2014–15 season.[9] On 1 July 2016, Ivković officially retired from professional coaching.[10]

National team coaching

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Assisting Luka Stančić with Yugoslavia's national junior (under-18) and cadet (under-16) teams

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Success with the Radnički Belgrade youth teams led to Ivković being recommended for the Yugoslav junior national team coaching staff. So, for the 1976 European Championship for Juniors, in Santiago de Compostela, 32-year-old coach Ivković was named assistant to the more experienced head coach Luka Stančić. The Yugoslav juniors, led by Aco Petrović, Miško Marić, and Predrag Bogosavljev, won gold by beating the Soviet Union 92–83 in the final.[11][12]

After the 1976 success, Ivković continued his assistant job under head coach Stančić, within the Yugoslav national team's youth system; in addition to assisting Stančić on the junior (under-18) national team, Ivković also assisted him in the cadet (under-16) national team. He would stay at the job until 1980, winning three medals at the European Championships in the process: two silver medals at the 1977 Championship for Cadets and the 1980 Championship for Juniors, as well as a bronze medal at the 1978 Championship for Juniors.[11][13] Ivković kept doing the youth national team's assistant job, even after being named to the high profile position of KK Partizan's head coach in 1978, and winning the "European Small Triple Crown" with the club, in 1979.

Yugoslavia university team head coach and assisting Krešo Ćosić with the Yugoslavia national team

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In summer 1983, with a bit of a head coaching resume under his belt—already featuring хигх’профиле appointments at KK Partizan and Aris—the Radnički Belgrade head coach Ivković was simultaneously named head coach of the Yugoslavia university team, with the upcoming Universiade in Edmonton being his first order of business. With a roster featuring supremely talented 18-year-old Šibenka player Dražen Petrović, the team took silver after losing to Canada in the final.[8]

At the 1986 FIBA World Championship in Spain, Ivković was an assistant coach for the Yugoslavia national team under head coach Krešimir Ćosić. Featuring the still only 21-year-old but already established and dominant European player Dražen Petrović, who had just led his club side Cibona to their second straight EuroLeague title, the Yugoslavian team disappointingly only got bronze after losing to the Soviet Union in the semifinals despite being up by 9 points with 53 seconds left in the game.[7]

Ivković also assisted Ćosić the following summer at EuroBasket 1987 where Yugoslavia again, somewhat disappointingly, got bronze. Barely three weeks after assisting Ćosić at EuroBasket 1987, Ivković was again the head coach of the Yugoslavian university team, this time at the Universiade at home in Zagreb. The team, featuring now 22-year-old European superstar Petrović, won gold in dominant fashion.

Head coach

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In 1988, Ivković succeeded Ćosić as the head coach of the senior men's Yugoslavian national team, and he held the post until the breakup of Yugoslavia, in 1991.[8]

Ivković then assumed the head coaching position of the senior men's FR Yugoslavian national team. He guided the FR Yugoslavia national team to a gold medal at the 1995 EuroBasket, in the country's first official appearance since the UN lifted sanctions against FR Yugoslavia. At the following 1997 EuroBasket tournament, Željko Obradović took over as the team's head coach, while Ivković assumed the role of team manager. Both Obradović and Ivković remained in their posts, until they jointly resigned in November 2000, following a sixth-place finish at the 2000 Summer Olympics.[14]

Ivković became the head coach of the senior men's Serbian national team in early 2008.[15] He took over that position from Zoran Slavnić, who had finished in dead last place with Serbia, at the 2007 EuroBasket, and whom had also failed to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics.[15] Ivković's first order of business was getting Serbia to qualify for the next EuroBasket, through the qualification rounds, which he was successful at. At the 2009 EuroBasket, he led Serbia to the final, where they lost to Spain, and finished the tournament with a silver medal.[16]

Following that, Ivković led Serbia to a fourth place finish at the 2010 FIBA World Championship. In April 2011, he agreed to work pro bono, for the remainder of his contract with the Serbian national team.[17] Ivković then led Serbia to an 8th place finish at the 2011 EuroBasket, which meant that Serbia failed to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Ivković's final order of business as Serbia's head coach, was leading them at the 2013 EuroBasket. At the tournament, he led Serbia to a 7th place finish, which meant that Serbia had qualified to play at the 2014 FIBA World Cup.[18] Ivković resigned from the position of Serbian national team head coach, on 24 September 2013, citing the need for the national team to be led by someone that was younger than him.[19]

Personal life

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Ivković's elder brother Slobodan "Piva" Ivković, was also a famous basketball player and coach.[20] Ivković earned a degree from the University of Belgrade Mining and Geology Faculty.[7] Ivković was related to the famous Serbian-American scientist Nikola Tesla. Ivković's maternal grandmother, Olga Mandić, and Tesla were first cousins.[21] Coincidentally, Tesla died the same year that Ivković was born.

Ivković was a record-holding pigeon racer.[21][22] Ivković died on 16 September 2021, in Belgrade, due to a pulmonary edema and herpes.[23] He was buried at the Belgrade New Cemetery, on 21 September 2021. The funeral service was attended by numerous active and retired basketball players and coaches, including: Vlade Divac, Dragan Kićanović, Vassilis Spanoulis, Dimitris Itoudis, Žarko Paspalj, Željko Obradović, Predrag Danilović, Dino Rađa, Jure Zdovc, and others.[24]

Career achievements

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Source[6][7][25]

As a head coach

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Titles won

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National team competitions

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Senior national team career

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As a head coach

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Other honors

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Individual awards and accomplishments

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As an assistant coach

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Marušić, Igor. Male tajne velikih majstora: Dušan Ivković. Studio magazine (via Yugopapir), June 1989. (in Serbo-Croatian)
  2. ^ a b Serbia Media Guide EuroBasket 2013 Archived 9 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine, page 23. kss.rs.
  3. ^ Dream Team, Shaq and Kukoc headline 2017 Class of FIBA Hall of Fame Inductees.
  4. ^ European basketball celebrates Coach Ivkovic's legendary career!
  5. ^ "Dusan Ivkovic to be honored as Euroleague Basketball Legend". Archived from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  6. ^ a b "2017 Class of FIBA Hall of Fame: Dusan Ivkovic". fiba.basketball. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
  7. ^ a b c d e "IN MEMORIAM – Dušan Duda Ivković (1943-2021)". lige.kss.rs. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  8. ^ a b c d e "IN MEMORIAM: Dušan Duda Ivković". mozzartsport.com. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  9. ^ "Dušan Ivković definitivno u Efesu". B92 (in Serbian). 30 May 2014.
  10. ^ "Legendary Serbian coach Dusan Ivkovic retires at 72". 26 July 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  11. ^ a b Ilić, Dragan (25 November 2016). "Beograd ne zaboravlja zlato Luke Stančića sa juniorima SFRJ na EP 1976". mojsvetsporta.net. Archived from the original on 14 July 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  12. ^ "Ni Tkačenko nije zadržao naše zlatne juniore". politika.rs. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  13. ^ "Od zlata važniji – igrači". kosmagazin.com. 19 July 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  14. ^ Ivković i Obradović podneli ostavke. Tanjug (via srbija.gov.rs), 21 November 2000. (in Serbian)
  15. ^ a b B92 (27 December 2007). "Ivković selektor tek u 2008" (in Serbian). Retrieved 17 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ Elkington, Mark (20 September 2009). "Spain crush Serbia to take European gold". Reuters. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  17. ^ Politika (21 April 2011). "Ivković selektor bez plate" (in Serbian). Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  18. ^ B92 (21 September 2013). "Ivković: Još ne znam da li ostajem" (in Serbian). Retrieved 11 September 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ B92 (24 September 2013). "Ivković odlazi: Vreme je za mlađe" (in Serbian). Retrieved 11 September 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  20. ^ Stanković, Vladimir. The excitement starts here. euroleague.net, 29 January 2010
  21. ^ a b Pavić, Zoran. Dušan Ivković – Svugde nosim svoj krst. Status magazine (via b92.net), November 2008. (in Serbian)
  22. ^ "OD NJE NIJE OSTAO: Duda Ivković je samo jednu stvar voleo više od košarke". novosti.rs. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
  23. ^ "Preminuo je Dušan Ivković". index.hr. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
  24. ^ "Sahranjen Dušan Duda Ivković uz prisustvo brojnih košarkaških velikana". mozzartsport.com. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  25. ^ "Dušan Duda Ivković, BIOGRAFIJA LEGENDE: Čovek koji je zauvek promenio košarku i stvorio "beli tim snova" - uradio je nešto, što nikome kasnije nije pošlo za rukom!". sport.blic.rs. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
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