Duško Vujošević

Duško Vujošević

Personal information
Nickname	Dule
Born	March 3, 1959 (1959-03-03) (age 52) Titograd, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia
Home town	Belgrade, Serbia
Team information
Previous teams coached
Years	Team
1985-89 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1993-95 1995-97 1997-98 1999-2001 2003 2007-2010 2001-2010 2010	KK Partizan CB Granada KK Partizan KK Crvena zvezda Brescia Pistoia Scavolini Pesaro KK Radnički Beograd Serbia and Montenegro national team Montenegro national basketball team KK Partizan CSKA Moscow
Best results
Years	Event	Result
1987, 2002-10 2007-10 1989, 2002, 2008-10 1989 1988	Serbian national championship Adriatic League Serbian national cup Korać Cup Europe U-18 Championship	winner winner winner winner winner

Duško "Dule" Vujošević (Cyrillic: Душко Вујошевић - Дуле) (born 3 March 1959 in Titograd, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Montenegrin basketball coach. During his career, his greatest results were achieved with KK Partizan. As of September 30, 2011 he became the president of SD Partizan.

Early life

Born in Titograd, to Orthodox Christian parents of Kuči clan ancestry,^[1] Duško was only five years old when the family moved to Belgrade.^[2]

Club coaching

Vujošević began his coaching career as a 17-year old, in 1976. Until 1982 he coached various junior teams in Partizan. After that, he moved to OKK Beograd for one season and led the club's junior team to the Yugoslav title. The same year, he worked on the coaching staff of OKK Beograd's full squad.^{[citation needed]}

After completing the mandatory military service, he worked at Mladost Zemun for a year and then returned to Partizan on the eve of the 1985–86 season, to become assistant coach. He shortly took over the head coach job mid-season following the firing of head coach. Under Vujošević's guidance, Partizan and won the Yugoslav title that very season. In the 1987–88 season, he took Partizan to the European Champions Cup Final Four in Ghent and finished third. In the following season, Vujošević led Partizan to the Korać Cup title and the Yugoslav Cup trophy.

Vujošević is a coach renowned for his work with young players. He was credited with producing a formidable generation of players who became famous worldwide after making their debut in Partizan (Divac, Paspalj, Danilović, Đorđević ...). He loves to give playing time to young players.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1989–90 season, he was the head coach of the Spanish team CB Granada. The following season he returned to Partizan and made it to the finals of the domestic league. In 1991–92 Vujošević again made it to the playoffs finals, this time with KK Crvena zvezda.^{[citation needed]}

From 1992 to 1998 Vujošević successfully worked in Italy, at Brescia, Pistoia and Scavolini. After he returned from Italy, Vujošević was the head of coaching staff of Budućnost Podgorica in the 1998–99 season. The following two seasons, from 1999 to 2001 he was the head coach of Radnički Beograd.

Since his return to Partizan in 2001, he has won nine consecutive national championships (2002–2010), four cups (2002, 2008, 2009, 2010), and four consecutive Adriatic League titles (2007-2010), thus becoming the most successful coach in the club's history. Also, under his management Partizan made it to the Euroleague "final four" competition stage, in the 2009/2010 season.

He won the Alexander Gomelsky Coach of the Year award as the best Euroleague coach of the 2008–09 season.^[3]

National team coaching

As coach of the junior national team of Yugoslavia, he won the 1988 European championship in Titov Vrbas as well as fourth place at the 1991 World championship in Canada.^{[citation needed]}

Serbia-Montenegro

On March 22, 2003 he was named the Serbia and Montenegro national basketball team head coach with the upcoming EuroBasket 2003 in Sweden being his first order of business. Taking over the team that was reigning European and world champion was no easy task considering the previous successes under coach Svetislav Pešić. Also not helping Vujošević was the fact that his appointment was seen as a makeshift solution after Božidar Maljković turned down the job despite being publicly courted by the Serbia-Montenegro basketball association for months.^{[citation needed]}

Due to many of the team's stars such as Dejan Bodiroga, Vlade Divac, etc. deciding to take the summer off Vujošević was forced to turn to some players that have never previously played for the national team such as Ognjen Aškrabić, Kosta Perović, Đuro Ostojić, Vule Avdalović, Nebojša Bogavac, and Dušan Vukčević. The run up to the 2003 Eurobasket was also marked by Vujošević's row with Dejan Koturović although the two quickly made up publicly. At the 2003 European Championship in Sweden, Serbia-Montenegro experienced hard time getting into the quarterfinals where it lost to Lithuania. Finishing the tournament in sixth place was seen as disappointment.

Montenegro

In April 2007, Vujošević accepted the head coach position of the Montenegro national basketball team. He stayed at the position until November 2010.

References

1. ^ http://www.standardmagazin.com/tema.php?ID=1666
2. ^ Бити спреман, то је све, NIN, June 4, 2009
3. ^ Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year: Dusko Vujosevic

External links

• Duško Vujošević Euroleague.net Profile

Persondata
Name	Vujosevic, Dusko
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Date of birth	1959-03-03
Place of birth	Titograd, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia
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