Milan Vasojević
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| Born | 27 December 1932 Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 24 December 1996 (aged 63) Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Serbian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 1965–1995 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1965–1966 | Crvena zvezda Ladies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976–1977 | Radnički Belgrade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1980–1989 | Yugoslavia (women's) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1982 | Yugoslavia (men's U21) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1988–1990 | Italmeco Bari | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Milan "Ciga" Vasojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан "Цига" Васојевић; December 27, 1932 – December 24, 1996) was a Serbian basketball coach and administrator. He led the national team of Yugoslavia during the greatest successes of women's basketball.
The Basketball Federation of Serbia named the national cup for women in his honor.
Coaching career
Radnički
Vasojević coached the men's team of Radnički Belgrade during 1970s. In 1977, Radnički reached the Cup Winners' Cup Finals where they lost to Forst Cantù by a single point margin, 86–87.[1]
Women's national team
The arrival of Vasojević as a head coach of the Yugoslavia women's national team in 1980 was almost revolutionary move. The greatest achievements of our women’s Yugoslav national team were to follow. On his debut at the 1980 European Championship in Banja Luka, Vasojević won the bronze medal, and only one month later the same success was achieved at the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow.[2][3]
The change of generations took place under Vasojević. He offered an opportunity to the younger players he fully believed in such as Anđelija Arbutina, Danira Nakić, Razija Mujanović, Jelica Komnenović, Olivera Krivokapić, Bojana Milošević, Slađana Golić.
At the 1987 Summer Universiade held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia won the gold medal, the only gold ever in women’s senior international competitions. The same year, at the European Championship in Cadiz, Yugoslavia won the silver medal in a tough final game against the Soviet Union which ended with an 83–73 win of the Soviet girls.[2]
The 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul were the crown of one splendid generation. A memorable moment of the semi-final game against Australia is a score of Anđelija Arbutina one second before the game end (57:56) for a place in the Olympic finals. The final game for the Olympic gold medal against the United States national team ended with a 77–70 win of the American girls, but the Yugoslavs showed all their talent and strongly resisted the USA team until the very end of the game.[2]
Post-coaching career
Vasojević was the first director of basketball club Hemofarm from Vršac takes office in 1995.
See also
References
- ^ "Cup Winners' Cup 1976–77". linguasport.com. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ a b c History of women’s basketball Archived 2016-10-12 at the Wayback Machine, kss.rs
- ^ "Godišnjica smrti Milana Cige Vasojevića". kosarka24.rs. Archived from the original on 2016-11-20. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
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- 1932 births
- 1996 deaths
- BKK Radnički coaches
- Yugoslav basketball coaches
- Serbian men's basketball coaches
- Sportspeople from Belgrade
- Serbian expatriate basketball people in Italy
- ŽKK Crvena zvezda coaches
- Olympic bronze medalists for Yugoslavia
- Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics