Dusan Ivkovic, legendary European basketball coach and World Champion with Yugoslavia in 1990, has died at the age of 77, the Serbian Basketball Federation (KSS) announced on its website on Thursday.
The agency did not offer details about the causes of Ivkovic’s death, but according to television channel N1, the technician would have died due to “pulmonary edema and herpes.”
Ivkovic was born in Belgrade on October 29, 1943 and made his debut as a player for Radnicki, the club in the Serbian capital.
In 1988 he took charge of the Yugoslav team, with which he won three European championships (1989, 1991 and 1995), although his best result was the World Cup in Argentina that he won in 1990, defeating the Soviet Union in the final.
He was also a two-time Olympic runner-up (Seoul-1988 and Atlanta-1996).
Ivkovic led one of the best generations in Balkan basketball, with the Croats Drazen Petrovic, Dino Radja and Toni Kukoc and the Serbs Vlade Divac, Aleksandar Djordjevic and Predrag Danilovic.
At club level, he managed several teams in Greece, Turkey and Russia, winning the Euroleague twice, both with Olympiacos (1997 and 2012).
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