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Born |
Kučevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
19 January 1936 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Serbian | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed height | 187 m (613 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 92 kg (203 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing career | 1954–1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Center | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Number | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Coaching career | 1969–1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||||||||||
As player: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1954–1957 | BSK | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1957–1968 | Partizan | ||||||||||||||||||||||
As coach: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1969–1971 | Partizan | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Radovan Radović (Serbian Cyrillic: Рaдовaн Рaдовић; born January 19, 1932), also known by his nickname Bata, is a Serbian former basketball player and coach.
Radović played for two Belgrade teams the BSK and the Partizan in Yugoslav First League.
He started his basketball career playing with the youth teams of the BSK. In 1954, ha was promoted to first team. Few years later he moved to Partizan where he has played for Partizan from 1957 to 1968, missed only 1964 season due to the compulsory military service. In 1963, he recorded a career-high 48 points in a game.
As a player for the Yugoslavia national basketball team Radović participated at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and at the EuroBasket 1961 in Belgrade where he won a silver medal. He participated at the EuroBasket 1959 in Turkey. Also, he won a gold medal at the 1959 Mediterranean Games in Lebanon and bronze medal at the 1963 Mediterranean Games in Italy.
Radović was a flag bearer for Yugoslavia at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.