The 1990 FIBA World Championship was the 11th

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, the international

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world championship for men's teams. It was hosted by

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from 8 to 19 August 1990. The final phase of the competition was held at the

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.XI World Cup (Buenos Aires 1990)
/ref> Yugoslavia emerged as the tournament winner. This was the last World Championship in which the country participated before its

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. Likewise, the

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participated in its final tournament before its

. This was the first ever

(now called FIBA Basketball World Cup) tournament, in which non-American current NBA players that had also already played in an official regular season NBA game could participate.

Venues

Qualification

There were 16 teams taking part in the 1990 World Cup of Basketball. * Host nation: 1 berth *

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: 12 teams competing for 5 berths * FIBA Europe: 8 teams competing for 5 berths *

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: 2 teams competing for 1 berths *

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: 15 teams competing for 2 berths *

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: 11 teams competing for 2 berths

Qualified teams

Draw

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Quarterfinal round

The top two finishers from Groups I and II advance to the final round.

Group I

Group II

9th–16th classification

Quarterfinal round

Group III

Group IV

13th–16th classification

Semifinals

Fifteenth place playoff

Thirteenth place playoff

9th–12th classification

Semifinals

Eleventh place playoff

Ninth place playoff

5th–8th classification

Semifinals

Seventh place playoff

Fifth place playoff

Final round

Semifinals

Third place playoff

Final

Final rankings

Vlade Divac & Drazen Petrovic in Argentina 1990

Awards

Team Roster:

Dražen Petrović Dražen Petrović (; 22 October 1964 – 7 June 1993) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s, before joining the Nati ...

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Zoran Čutura Zoran Čutura (born 12 March 1962 in Zagreb) is a former Croatian basketball player. After ending his professional basketball career he started working as a sports journalist and columnist. Professional career Čutura started playing basketba ...

Toni Kukoč Toni Kukoč, nicknamed ''“The Waiter”'' (; born September 18, 1968) is a Croatian-American former professional basketball player who serves as Special Advisor to Jerry Reinsdorf, the owner of the Chicago Bulls. After a highly successful perio ...

Žarko Paspalj Žarko Paspalj (Serbian Cyrillic: Жарко Паспаљ; born March 27, 1966) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player and sports administrator. The EuroLeague Final Four MVP in 1994, his sixteen and a half seasons career was mostly sp ...

Jure Zdovc Jurij "Jure" Zdovc (born 13 December 1966) is a Slovenian former professional basketball player and coach Zdovc Returning to Helm of National Team.] As a player, he was a 1.98 m (6'6") tall point guard, who began his professional playing caree ...

Željko Obradović Želimir "Željko" Obradović ( sr-cyr, Желимир "Жељко" Обрадовић, ; born 9 March 1960) is a Serbian professional basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach for Partizan of the ABA League, the Basketba ...

, Radisav Ćurčić,

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, Zoran Jovanović, and

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. Head Coach:

Dušan Ivković Dušan "Duda" Ivković ( sr-cyrl, Душан "Дуда" Ивковић; 29 October 1943 – 16 September 2021) was a Serbian professional basketball player and coach. He served as head coach of the senior Serbian national basketball team from ...

All-Tournament Team

Oscar Schmidt Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt (born February 16, 1958) is a retired Brazilian professional basketball player. He is also commonly known as Oscar Schmidt in Spain, where he played for Fórum Valladolid for the 1993–94 and 1994–95 seasons, ...

(Brazil) *

(Yugoslavia) *

(Yugoslavia) * Kenny Anderson (USA) * Fico López (Puerto Rico)

Top scorers (ppg)

(Brazil) 34.6 #

Antonello Riva Antonello Riva (born 28 February 1962) is an Italian former professional basketball player. At 1.96 m (6'5"), he played at the shooting guard and small forward positions. During his playing career, he was nicknamed "Nembo Kid" (Italian version of ...

(Italy) 30.3 #

Panagiotis Giannakis Panagiotis Giannakis ( el, Παναγιώτης Γιαννάκης, ; born January 1, 1959), alternatively spelled Panayiotis Yiannakis or Yannakis, is a retired Greek professional basketball player and coach. As a player, he was primarily a poin ...

(Greece) 26.0 #

Andrew Gaze Andrew Barry Casson Gaze (born 24 July 1965) is an Australian former professional basketball player and coach. He played 22 seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL) with the Melbourne Tigers from 1984 to 2005, winning the league's MVP a ...

(Australia) 24.3 #

Jordi Villacampa Jordi Villacampa Amorós (born October 11, 1963) is a Spanish retired professional basketball player of Joventut Badalona, and former chairman of the club. At 1.96 m (6 ft. 5 in.) tall, he played as a shooting guard-small forward. His main ...

(Spain) 23.0 # Kim Kim (S.Korea) 22.1 #

Gabriel Estaba Gabriel Ramon Estaba García (born 24 March 1965 in Carúpano, Sucre) is a Venezuelan basketball player. Estaba played Venezuela's Liga Profesional de Baloncesto with Panteras de Lara, Panteras de Miranda and Marinos de Oriente. He played with ...

(Venezuela) 21.5 # Wang Fei (China) 19.4 # Kenny Anderson (USA) 18.8 # Valeri Tikhonenko (USSR) 18.5

References

External links

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International basketball competitions hosted by Argentina

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