Slavica Pecikoza (born September 8, 1961) is a Yugoslav and

Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

n former female professional

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player. She has a degree in journalism, a master of science in sports, and a degree in football management. She has been a member of the former Yugoslavia women's national basketball team for many years, with close to 100 caps, participating in the

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and

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. She played basketball for the Sarajevo clubs ŽKK Bosna Sarajevo and

ŽKK Željezničar Sarajevo Ženski košarkaški klub Željezničar Sarajevo () is a Bosnian women's basketball team from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. History In 1982. ŽKK Željezničar competed in the second division of Yugoslavia, with great success and without losi ...

. Since her playing days, she worked as a journalist, and was also the editor of the Sports Editorial Office on the Radio of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Pecikoza is a long-standing spokesperson for the

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, and a senior expert associate for PR with the organisation. She is also the first and only Bosnia and Herzegovina representative who acted both as

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and as

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media officer at the same time. She attended three different

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, as a journalist, a Bosnian team press officer at the World Cup in Brasil, and as a FIFA media officer at the World Cup in Russia.

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at sports-reference.com 1961 births Living people People from Višegrad Sportspeople from Foča Region ŽKK Željezničar Sarajevo players Bosnia and Herzegovina women's basketball players Yugoslav women's basketball players Olympic basketball players for Yugoslavia Basketball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1985 Summer Universiade Summer World University Games medalists in basketball FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Yugoslavia Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games 20th-century Bosnia and Herzegovina sportswomen {{BosniaHerzegovina-basketball-bio-stub