Legendary Serbian basketball coach Dusan Duda Ivkovic passes away

Ph oto: MN Press

Legendary Serbian coach Dusan Duda Ivkovic passed away early this morning in Belgrade at the age of 78.

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The information about the death of the Serbian basketball legend was confirmed by the first man of Duda's beloved Radnicki basketball klub, Goran Kalinic.

"Dusan died at 6:50 in a hospital in Belgrade as a result of liquid in his lungs and herpes," Goran Kalinic told Sport Klub.

The legendary Duda had won almost everything that could be won during his career filled with trophies.

He was our national team's head coach on two occasions, from 1988 until 1996 and from 2008 until 2013. With the national team, he won three European gold medals (in 1989, 1991 and 1995), as well as one silver (in 2009). In 1990 he won the World Championship gold medal, and silver in the 1988 Olympic Games.

During his rich coaching career, he worked in Partizan, Aris, Radnicki, Sibenik, Vojvodina, PAOK, Panionios, Olympiacos, AEK, CSKA, Dinamo Moscow, Anadolu Efes.

He announced the end of his coaching career in 2016.

However, his greatest love was Radnicki from Belgrade's Crveni Krst neighborhood, for which he fought until the final years of his life.

He recently received a role with the Partizan basketball club, after Zeljko Obradovic was hired, where he was supposed to be a member of the KK Partizan Foundation, whose goal was to assist vulnerable basketball legends.

(Telegraf.rs)