 Ivković coachingSerbia in 2011 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1943-10-29)29 October 1943 |
| Died | 16 September 2021(2021-09-16) (aged 77) Belgrade, Serbia |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Listed height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)[1] |
| Listed weight | 90 kg (198 lb)[1] |
| Career information | |
| Playing career | 1958–1968 |
| Position | Point guard |
| Coaching career | 1968–2016 |
| Career history | |
Playing | |
| 1958–1968 | Radnički Belgrade |
Coaching | |
| 1968–1977 | Radnički Belgrade (youth) |
| 1977–1978 | Partizan (assistant) |
| 1978–1980 | Partizan |
| 1980–1982 | Aris |
| 1982–1984 | Radnički Belgrade |
| 1984–1987 | Šibenka |
| 1987–1990 | Vojvodina |
| 1988–1991 | Yugoslavia |
| 1992–1995 | FR Yugoslavia |
| 1991–1993 | PAOK |
| 1994–1996 | Panionios |
| 1996–1999 | Olympiacos |
| 1999–2001 | AEK Athens |
| 2002–2005 | CSKA Moscow |
| 2005–2007 | Dynamo Moscow |
| 2008–2013 | Serbia |
| 2010–2012 | Olympiacos |
| 2014–2016 | Anadolu Efes |
| Career highlights | |
As head coach:
As assistant coach:
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| FIBA Hall of Fame | |
Dušan "Duda" Ivković (Serbian Cyrillic:Душан "Дуда" Ивковић; 29 October 1943 – 16 September 2021) was a Serbian professionalbasketball player andcoach. He served ashead coach of the seniorSerbian national basketball team from 2007 to 2013, and of the seniorYugoslavian national basketball team, from 1987[1][2] (Serbia and Montenegro competed as theFR Yugoslavia national team following thebreakup of Yugoslavia) to 1995.[2] He was also the president of the Serbian clubBKK Radnički.
In 2008, he was named one of the50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors. He was elected to theFIBA Hall of Fame in 2017.[3] He was also named aEuroLeague Basketball Legend in 2017.[4][5]
Apoint guard, Ivković played 10 seasons ofclub basketball in Yugoslavia, from1958 to1968. He spent his entire club playing career withRadnički Belgrade. He retired as a player in 1968, and then joined Radnički Belgrade'syouth system as a head coach.[6]
After retirement in 1968, Ivković joined theyouth system ofRadnički 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.
In 1977, he became an assistant coach forPartizan, working under the club'shead 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 theEuropean Small Triple Crown with Partizan, as he won theYugoslav Championship, theYugoslav Cup title, and theFIBA 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 themost successful club in Serbian basketball history.[8]
In 1980, Ivković left Partizan to join Greek sideAris, where he also stayed for two seasons.
After that, he returned to Radnički Belgrade, where he had previously spent his entire playing career.
He then had a three-year stint withŠibenka.
After that, Ivković spent two seasons withVojvodina.
Ivković returned to Greece in 1990, when he took overP.A.O.K., to which he brought the second and lastGreek League championship in the club's history, in 1992.
After three years on the black-and-white bench, he moved to Athens-basedPanionios.
In 1996, Ivkovic moved toOlympiacos. With Olympiacos, in the1996–97 season, he brought the Red-Whites to their firstEuropean Triple Crown title. Olympiacos won that season's championship of theFIBA EuroLeague, at the1997 FIBA EuroLeague Final Four, and also in that same season, the club won theGreek Basket League championship and theGreek Cup title.[8]
After three years at Olympiacos, Ivković took over thecity rivalAEK, and he brought them the2000 FIBA Saporta Cup championship.
Ivković moved from Greece toRussia, in the summer of 2002, when he came toCSKA Moscow, a club with a great tradition. He took over their head coaching job and also the club'sbasketball operations, at the same time. In the next three years, the Russian club reached theEuroLeague Final Four three times, won all threeRussian Championships, and also oneRussian Cup title.
From there, he moved to Moscow's second largest club in 2005,Dynamo Moscow, for two seasons, where he won the2006 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.
He then returned to Olympiacos in 2010. With Olympiacos, he won theGreek Cup title in 2011, and also the 2012 the EuroLeague championship, at the2012 EuroLeague Final Four. Olympiacos came back to win the EuroLeague championship, after they trailedCSKA Moscow by 19 points in the third quarter. They won the EuroLeague championship with abuzzer-beater basket byGeorgios Printezis, from anassist byVassilis Spanoulis, in the last seconds of theEuroLeague Final. Ivković also won the 2012Greek 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 theBest Sports Coach in Greece for 2012.
In 2014, Ivković signed a two-year contract with theTurkish Super League teamAnadolu 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]
Success with the Radnički Belgrade youth teams led to Ivković being recommended for theYugoslav junior national team coaching staff. So, for the1976 European Championship for Juniors, inSantiago de Compostela, 32-year-old coach Ivković was named assistant to the more experienced head coachLuka Stančić. The Yugoslav juniors, led byAco Petrović,Miško Marić, andPredrag Bogosavljev, won gold by beating theSoviet 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'syouth system; in addition to assisting Stančić on the junior (under-18) national team, Ivković also assisted him in thecadet (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 the1977 Championship for Cadets and the1980 Championship for Juniors, as well as a bronze medal at the1978 Championship for Juniors.[11][13] Ivković kept doing the youth national team's assistant job, even after being named to the high profile position ofKK Partizan's head coach in 1978, and winning the "European Small Triple Crown" with the club, in 1979.
In summer 1983, with a bit of a head coaching resume under his belt—already featuring хигх’профиле appointments at KK Partizan andAris—the Radnički Belgrade head coach Ivković was simultaneously named head coach of theYugoslavia university team, with the upcomingUniversiade inEdmonton being his first order of business. With a roster featuring supremely talented 18-year-oldŠibenka playerDražen Petrović, the team took silver after losing toCanada in the final.[8]
At the1986 FIBA World Championship inSpain, Ivković was an assistant coach for theYugoslavia national team under head coachKrešimir Ćosić. Featuring the still only 21-year-old but already established and dominant European playerDražen Petrović, who had just led his club sideCibona to their second straightEuroLeague title, theYugoslavian team disappointingly only got bronze after losing to theSoviet 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 atEuroBasket 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 theUniversiade at home inZagreb. The team, featuring now 22-year-old European superstar Petrović, won gold in dominant fashion.
In 1988, Ivković succeeded Ćosić as thehead coach of the senior men'sYugoslavian national team, and he held the post until thebreakup of Yugoslavia, in 1991.[8]
Ivković then assumed the head coaching position of the senior men'sFR Yugoslavian national team. He guided the FR Yugoslavia national team to a gold medal at the1995 EuroBasket, in the country's first official appearance since theUN liftedsanctions against FR Yugoslavia. At the following1997 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 the2000 Summer Olympics.[14]
Ivković became the head coach of the senior men'sSerbian national team in early 2008.[15] He took over that position fromZoran Slavnić, who had finished in dead last place with Serbia, at the2007 EuroBasket, and whom had also failed to qualify for the2008 Summer Olympics.[15] Ivković's first order of business was getting Serbia to qualify for the nextEuroBasket, through thequalification rounds, which he was successful at. At the2009 EuroBasket, he led Serbia to thefinal, where they lost toSpain, and finished the tournament with a silver medal.[16]
Following that, Ivković led Serbia to a fourth place finish at the2010 FIBA World Championship. In April 2011, he agreed to workpro bono, for the remainder of his contract with the Serbian national team.[17] Ivković then led Serbia to an 8th place finish at the2011 EuroBasket, which meant that Serbia failed to qualify for the2012 Summer Olympics.
Ivković's final order of business as Serbia's head coach, was leading them at the2013 EuroBasket. At the tournament, he led Serbia to a 7th place finish, which meant that Serbia had qualified to play at the2014 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]
Ivković's elder brotherSlobodan "Piva" Ivković, was also a famous basketball player and coach.[20] Ivković earned a degree from theUniversity of Belgrade Mining and Geology Faculty.[7] Ivković was related to the famousSerbian-American scientistNikola Tesla. Ivković's maternal grandmother, Olga Mandić, and Tesla werefirst cousins.[21] Coincidentally, Tesla died the same year that Ivković was born.
Ivković was a record-holdingpigeon racer.[21][22] Ivković died on 16 September 2021, inBelgrade. He was buried at theBelgrade 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.[23]
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