Mihajlo "Miki" Vuković ( sr-cyr, Михајло "Мики" Вуковић; 25 June 1944 – 15 January 2021) was a Serbian professional

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Early life

Vuković was born in a village Miločaj near

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. He started to play basketball in his hometown club Sloga. In 1966, he moved to Tuzla, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina where he played for

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. He retired as a player with Sloboda in 1972.

Coaching career

Women's basketball

During late 1980s, Vuković was the head coach of Jedinstvo Tuzla led by Razija Mujanović. He won EuroLeague Women in 1988–89 and three Yugoslav Women's League championships. Between 1990 and 1995, Vuković was the head coach of Valencia-based team Dorna Godella.

Men's basketball

Vuković coached his former club Sloboda Tuzla during the 1989–90 Yugoslav League season. In 1995,

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hired Vuković as their new head coach. He won a Spanish Men's Cup in

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and lost two finals, the 2000 Spanish Cup and the 1999 FIBA Saporta Cup. Vuković left the club in 2000.

National teams

In 1984, Vuković was the head coach for the Yugoslavia U16 women's team at the FIBA European Championship for Cadettes in

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. His team finished 7th. Vuković was the head coach for the Yugoslavia women's national team that won the silver medal at the

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Career achievements and awards

As head coach: * EuroLeague Women champion: 3 (with Jedinstvo Tuzla: 1988–89; with Dorna Godella: 1991–92, 1992–93) * FIBA Intercontinental Cup for Women champion: 1 (with Dorna Godella: 1991–92) * Spanish Women's League champion: 5 (with Dorna Godella: 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95) * Yugoslav Women's League champion: 3 (with Jedinstvo Tuzla: 1986–87, 1987–88, 1989–90) * Spanish Women's Cup winner: 3 (with Dorna Godella: 1991, 1992, 1994) * Spanish Men's Cup winner: 1 (with

) * Yugoslav Women's Cup winner: 1 (with Jedinstvo Tuzla: 1987–88)

References

External links

Coach Profile
at

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