{"id":206909,"date":"2026-04-08T13:42:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=206909"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:46:08","slug":"preminuo-dusko-vujosevic-legendarni-kosarkaski-trener-umro-u-67-godini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/preminuo-dusko-vujosevic-legendarni-kosarkaski-trener-umro-u-67-godini\/","title":{"rendered":"DUSKO VUJOSEVIC PASSED AWAY: Legendary basketball coach died at the age of 67!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Du\u0161ko Vujo\u0161evi\u0107, the legendary basketball coach, passed away this Wednesday in Belgrade, reports Nova.rs.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vujo\u0161evi\u0107 had been facing serious health problems for a long time, primarily with his kidneys, and he underwent a transplant in Belarus in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During March of this year, he was admitted to the hospital after his health seriously deteriorated due to complications with his heart and lungs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His friend Peca Popovi\u0107 said goodbye to him in a post on the social network Facebook, confirming the information for sports media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside a photograph of Vujo\u0161evi\u0107, he left a message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;GOODBYE DEAR DUSKO<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpeca.popovic.58%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0g6Wf42DZroyeNRritQEz2rgMWc7Ka45gJ6PZTZ1qZjvEZ35duZ1b4EEd9SY7squ3l&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>A man never knows who he is. And life is a comedian full of darkness. As that Dutch Austrian Thomas Bernhard would say,&#8221; wrote Popovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also led OKK Beograd, Mladost Zemun, Oximesa, Crvena zvezda, Brescia, Pistoia, Pesaro, Radni\u010dki Beograd, CSKA Moscow, Limoges, and Cluj, which was his final coaching engagement. He was also the head coach of Serbia and Montenegro, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Du\u0161ko was and will remain one of the symbols of BC Partizan, with whom he dominated the region in the first decade of the 21st century, winning numerous trophies. He led the Black-and-Whites from 2001 to 2010, and then from 2012 to 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2010, he created a sensation with the Black-and-Whites, eliminating Maccabi to qualify for the EuroLeague Final Four, and in the semi-finals, Partizan was only a few seconds away from a victory over Olympiacos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/iran-introduces-a-tax-for-passage-through-the-strait-of-hormuz-they-could-earn-364-million-dollars-during-the-truce-alone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">IRAN INTRODUCES A TAX FOR PASSAGE THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ: They could earn 364 million dollars during the truce alone!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/full-application-of-the-new-system-at-eu-borders-from-friday-large-crowds-expected-here-is-what-passengers-are-specifically-warned-about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FULL APPLICATION OF THE NEW SYSTEM AT EU BORDERS FROM FRIDAY: Large crowds expected, here is what passengers are specifically warned about!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/vance-called-trump-by-phone-from-orbans-rally-here-is-how-the-crowd-reacted-to-the-american-presidents-inclusion-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">VANCE CALLED TRUMP BY PHONE FROM ORBAN\u2019S RALLY: Here is how the crowd reacted to the American president\u2019s inclusion! 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(PHOTO, VIDEO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Source<\/strong><\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/nova.rs\/sport\/kosarka\/umro-dusko-vujosevic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Nova.rs<\/a>; <strong>Photo<\/strong>: ATA Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Du\u0161ko Vujo\u0161evi\u0107, the legendary basketball coach, passed away this Wednesday in Belgrade, reports Nova.rs. Vujo\u0161evi\u0107 had been facing serious health problems for a long time, primarily with his kidneys, and he underwent a transplant in Belarus in 2025. During March of this year, he was admitted to the hospital after his health seriously deteriorated due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":206910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[159,8793,1844,4602,249,920,91,113],"class_list":["post-206909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-crna-gora","tag-dusko-vujosevic","tag-in-memoriam","tag-kk-partizan","tag-kosarka-2","tag-partizan","tag-sport","tag-srbija","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206969,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206909\/revisions\/206969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}