Duško Vujošević
Template:Volleyball coach infobox Duško "Dule" Vujošević (Cyrillic: Душко Вујошевић - Дуле) (born 3 March 1959 in Titograd, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Montenegrin basketball coach, whose greatest success was achieved with KK Partizan.
Early life
Born in Titograd, Duško was only five years old when the family moved to Belgrade.[1]
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.
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 after his predecessor was fired 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.
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.
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 last nine consecutive national championships (2002–2010), four cups (2002, 2008, 2009, 2010), and last four Adriatic League titles (2007, 2008, 2009 and 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 Gomelskiy Coach of the Year award as the best Euroleague coach of the 2008–09 season.[2]
National team
As coach of the junior national team of Yugoslavia, he won the 1988 European championship in Vrbas and fourth place on the 1991 World championship in Canada.
Serbia-Montenegro
On March 22, 2003 he was named as the Serbia and Montenegro national basketball team head coach with the upcoming 2003 EuroBasket 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.
Due to many of the team's stars such as Dejan Bodiroga, Vlade Divac, etc. deciding to take the summer off Vujošević was forced into inviting some players that have never previously played for the national team such as Đuro Ostojić, Nebojša Bogavac, Dušan Vukčević. The run up to the 2003 Eurobasket was also characterized 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.
Popularity among Partizan fans
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Duško Vujošević is very popular among Partizan Belgrade fans, Grobari. Because of his eight consecutive domestic titles they often chant to him before games "Bring us the 9th title, Dule!". After every victory in the Euroleague, and even after losses, Grobari stay in the Pionir Hall for a long period of time, calling out Vujošević with the song "Dule Vujošević, shalalalala" (on the melody of Boney M's song "Brown Girl in the Ring").[citation needed]
In contrast he is very disliked by the rival fans of KK Crvena zvezda.[citation needed]
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