Miloš Bojović ( sr-Cyrl, Милош Бојовић; 25 June 1938 – 5 August 2001) was a Serbian

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, professional

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player,

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and executive, as well as a politician. He represented the

Yugoslavia national basketball team The Yugoslavia men's national basketball team ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Košarkaška reprezentacija Jugoslavije, Кошаркашка репрезентација Југославије; ; ) represented the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

internationally.

Basketball career

Playing career

Bojović spent his entire playing career with Belgrade-based club Partizan. Over 13 seasons, from the

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to 1968–69 season, he played 202 games and scored 4,086

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. Bojović was loaned to

OKK Beograd Omladinski košarkaški klub Beograd ( sr-cyr, Омладински кошаркашки клуб Београд), commonly referred to as OKK Beograd, is a men's professional basketball club based in Belgrade, Serbia. They are currently competin ...

for the 1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup season. Over three games, he averaged 7,3 points per game.

National team career

Bojović was a member of the Yugoslavia national team that won the bronze medal at the 1963 FIBA European Championship in

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, Poland. Over six tournament games, he averaged seven points per game. He was member of the national team that won the silver medal at the 1965 FIBA European Championship in the Soviet Union. Over six tournament games, he averaged six points per game.

Post-playing career

Bojović was a head coach of the Partizan junior team from 1969 to 1972. After that, he was a staff member of Partizan. During the late 1980s, Bojović was president of the Belgrade Basketball Association.

Journalism

Bojović also worked as a

who wrote about basketball. In 1963, he started to work for ''

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'', and then in the newly established '' Politika Ekspres''. During the 1970s, he followed and wrote about the national basketball team.

Legal career

Bojović earned his law degree from the

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. In 1986, he opened his

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together with his wife Vesna. From 1995 to 2003, Bojović was a

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for

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Political career

During the early 1990s, Bojović was a member of

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. He got elected at the

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. Later, he was elected to Federal Parlement of FR Yugoslavia.

References

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