HAKK Mladost (Hrvatski akademski košarkaški klub Mladost) is a

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club from

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. It is part of the Mladost sports society.

History

The basketball section of the club was formed in 1946 after its parent club HAŠK Zagreb (which established in 1906 and until 1945 had only football department) fused up to Dinamo Zagreb, whenever HAŠK not to dissolve founded other departments and rename it to Mladost (HAŠK Mladost), which in

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means "Youth". In 1948, Mladost participated for the first time in the final tournament of the

Yugoslav League The Yugoslav First Federal Football League ( Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...

held in

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and took the fifth place in a six team group. The next year, it came out as best Croatian basketball team after it was ranked third in the national league behind their Serbian rivals of Belgrade (

Crvena Zvezda Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional football club based in B ...

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) and above the other Croatian teams such as Jedinstvo (4th) and Lokomotiva Rijeka (9th). The decade of the '50s proved the best in the history of the club, having taken part seven times in the large category of Yugoslavia basketball (1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956) and specifically in 1954 where Mladost (Brkljačić, Aleksandar Blašković, Petar Mijač, Batalo, Špiljak, coach Mića Orlović)Slobodna Dalmacija
Vremeplov Pressinga: Petar Mijač, prvi splitski košarkaški reprezentativac. Zabilježio Milorad Bibić, 20. listopada 2003. claims until of the end the champions title against this great team of Crvena Zvezda with the consecutive championship wins that period. The absolute zenith of the championship's claimsk, Mladost was limited to simple participation the next two years and was demoted in 1956. The last glimpse of the team was in 1962, with its participation in the great division, accompanied by an even longer and definitive relegation.

Yugoslav League seasons

Notable players

Faruk Kulenović Faruk Kulenović (born 23 February 1952 in Zagreb, Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian-Bosnian professional basketball coach. When he coached KK Šibenik, Dražen Petrović was a youngster at the club. Career *as a player **1963-1973 HAKK Mlad ...

(1969–73) *

Mihovil Nakić Mihovil Nakić-Vojnović (born 31 July 1955) is a Croatian former professional basketball player. Standing at , he played as a small forward. Club career Nakić spent most of his club career in Cibona, which he helped win back-to-back EuroLeag ...

(1970–73)

References

External links

HAŠK Mladost
{{Yugoslav First Basketball League seasons University and college sports clubs Basketball teams in Croatia Basketball teams established in 1946 Mladost Basketball teams in Yugoslavia Multi-sport clubs in Croatia 1946 establishments in Croatia