Duško Vujoševic
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Duško "Dule" Vujošević (Cyrillic
Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
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: Душко Вујошевић - Дуле) (born 3 March 1959 in Titograd, SR Montenegro
Socialist Republic of Montenegro
Socialist Republic of Montenegro or SR Montenegro in shortened form, was a socialist state that was a constituent country in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It is a predecessor of the modern day Montenegro...

, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Montenegrin basketball coach. During his career, his greatest results were achieved with KK Partizan
KK Partizan
Košarkaški klub Partizan is a Serbian professional basketball club. It is part of the multi-sports Belgrade-based club Partizan. The club competes in the Serbian League, Adriatic League and the Euroleague....

. As of September 30, 2011 he became the president of SD Partizan.

Early life

Born in Titograd, to Orthodox Christian
Serbian Orthodox Church
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 parents of Kuči
KUCI
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 clan ancestry, Duško was only five years old when the family moved to Belgrade.

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
OKK Beograd
OKK Beograd is a Serbian professional basketball club. It is part of the multi-sports Belgrade-based sport club OSD Beograd.-History:The club was founded in 1945 under the name KK Metalac...

 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
KK Partizan
Košarkaški klub Partizan is a Serbian professional basketball club. It is part of the multi-sports Belgrade-based club Partizan. The club competes in the Serbian League, Adriatic League and the Euroleague....

 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
Ghent
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 and finished third. In the following season, Vujošević led Partizan to the Korać Cup
Korac Cup
The Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA between the 1971-72 and 2001-02 seasons. It was the third-tier level club competition in European basketball, after the European Champions' Cup and the Cup Winners' 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
Vlade Divac
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, Paspalj
Žarko Paspalj
Žarko Paspalj is a retired Serbian professional basketball player and current sports administrator...

, Danilović
Predrag Danilovic
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, 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
CB Granada
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. 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
KK Crvena zvezda
Košarkaški klub Crvena zvezda is a professional basketball club based in Belgrade, Serbia. Its name Crvena zvezda means Red Star and it's part of the Red Star Belgrade sports society ....

.

From 1992 to 1998 Vujošević successfully worked in Italy
Italy
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, at Brescia, Pistoia and Scavolini. After he returned from Italy, Vujošević was the head of coaching staff of Budućnost Podgorica
KK Buducnost Podgorica
KK Budućnost Podgorica is a professional basketball club from Podgorica, Montenegro. It is a part of Budućnost Podgorica sport society. The team currently competes in First Montenegrin Opportunity League and regional Adriatic League...

 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
Euroleague
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 "final four" competition stage, in the 2009/2010
2009–10 Euroleague Final Four
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 season.

He won the Alexander Gomelsky Coach of the Year award
Euroleague Coach of the Year Award
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 as the best Euroleague coach of the 2008–09 season.

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
Canada
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.

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
Svetislav Pešic
Svetislav Pešić Svetislav Pešić (Светислав Пешић) Svetislav Pešić (Светислав Пешић) (born August 28, 1949 in Pirot, Serbia, is former Serbian professional basketball player and a present day Serbian basketball coach. He is the current coach of BC Red Star.-Playing career:...

. Also not helping Vujošević was the fact that his appointment was seen as a makeshift solution after Božidar Maljković
Božidar Maljkovic
Božidar "Boža" Maljković is a Serbian basketball coach, one of the most successful in Europe, having won a title with practically all clubs he trained, including four Euroleague titles with three different clubs...

 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
Dejan Bodiroga
Dejan Bodiroga is a retired Serbian professional basketball player.He is offten considered as one of the best players who did not play in the NBA....

, Vlade Divac
Vlade Divac
Vlade Divac is a retired Yugoslav and Serbian professional basketball player who spent most of his career in the NBA. At , he played center and was known for his passing skills...

, 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
Ognjen Aškrabic
Ognjen Aškrabić is a Serbian professional basketball player. He is 2.07 m in height and he weighs 109 kg...

, Kosta Perović
Kosta Perovic
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, Đuro Ostojić, Vule Avdalović
Vule Avdalovic
Vule Avdalović is a Serbian professional basketball player.-Awards:Team Awards* Yugoslav League: 2 * Serbia & Montenegro League: 2...

, Nebojša Bogavac
Nebojša Bogavac
Nebojša Bogavac is a Montenegrin basketball player.-Pro career:Bogavac played four seasons for KK Lovćen in the Yugoslav Basketball League from 1997 to 2001. He then spent next four years with KK Hemofarm between 2001 and 2005. He helped the team to win the Adriatic League title in 2005. Bogavac...

, and Dušan Vukčević. The run up to the 2003 Eurobasket was also marked by Vujošević's row with Dejan Koturović
Dejan Koturovic
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 although the two quickly made up publicly. At the 2003 European Championship in Sweden
Eurobasket 2003
-5th to 8th place:-Awards:-All-Tournament Team : Tony Parker Šarūnas Jasikevičius Saulius Štombergas Andrei Kirilenko Pau Gasol-Top scorers :# Pau Gasol 25.8# Andrei Kirilenko 23.1# Dirk Nowitzki 22.5# Mehmet Okur 18.7...

, 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
Montenegro national basketball team
The Montenegrin national basketball team represents Montenegro in men's international basketball tournaments. It is organized by the Basketball Federation of Montenegro , which is the governing body of basketball in Montenegro...

.
He stayed at the position until November 2010.

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