Career

Ivković played club

Sports club

A sports club or sport club, sometimes athletics club or sports association is a club for the purpose of playing one or more sports...

 basketball at the senior level fin the club Radnički Belgrade. He was well-talented player with much better physical capabilities, but nobody managed to stabilize him as player. Besides that, he had weak sight, which was a serious problem since in those times many games were played outside, during the night.

Ivković coached in the following clubs: Radnički, 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...

, KK MZT Skopje

KK MZT Skopje

KK МЗТ Скопје is a basketball club based in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League.-History:Name: MZT Boss , MZT 2000 , MZT Skopje League Achievements:*Macedonian League Champion -...

, in Kuwait and in the Emirates. He was one of the first Serbian coaches that went to school in the USA.
He is the founder of creation of modern coach organization in the former Yugoslavia.

Personal life

Slobodan Ivković's younger brother Dušan Ivković

Dušan Ivkovic

Dušan "Duda" Ivković is a Serbian former professional basketball player and current coach. In 2008, he was named one of the 10 Greatest Coaches in Euroleague history....

 is also a famous basketball player and coach.

Ivković is related to the famous Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...

. Ivković's maternal grandmother Olga Mandić and Tesla's mother Đuka Mandić were sisters. Ironically, Tesla died the same year Ivković was born.

Today a memorial tournament named after him is held in Belgrade. The organiser is the basketball club Radnički.

National domestic league championships

-1971-72: Radnički Belgrade: Yugoslav League

European club continental championships

• 1973-74: Radnički Belgrade
  KK Radnički Basket
  Košarkaški klub Radnički Basket is a professional basketball club from Belgrade, Serbia. The club currently participates in the Basketball league of Serbia B. Their homeground is the Basketcity Hall.-History:...
  
  : 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...
  
  semifinalist

External links

• Zvonimir Matutinović: Slobodan Piva Ivković