**SPORTS IN MY COUNTRY**

Popular sports in Serbia are: football, basketball, water polo,

volleyball, handball and tenis. Serbia hosted the Summer
University 2009, World Cup in water sports 1973, European
championships in football, basketball, volleyball, handball, table
tennis, gymnastics, judo, wrestiling, rowing... Every year Belgrade
marathon and bicycle race are organized in Serbia. The most
famous sports clubs in Serbia are JSD Partizan and Crvena
Zvezda.

*BASKETBALL*

The main organization in charge of basketball in Serbia is the

Serbian Basketball Association.

Greatest contribution to the development of basketball in Serbia

and Jugoslavia is considered to be made by a player and coach
Aleksandar Nikoli. Due to his merit he got the nickname Father
of the Jugoslav basketball. The most successful Serbian
basketball coaches are: Duan Ivkovi, Svetislav Pei and eljko
Obradovi. The most famous players are: Radivoj Kora, Dragan
Kianovi, Vlade Divac, Dejan Bodiroga, Aleksandar orevi and
Predrag Stojakovi.

The awards for the most valuable players at the world

championships were given to Kianovi (1974), Dalipagi (1978)
and Bodiroga (1998), and at the European to Kora (1961),
Dalipagi (1977), Kianovi (1981), orevi (1997) and
Stojakovi (2001).

Three finals of the European championships in basketball were

held in Serbia in 2005.

Serbian players who have been declared the best European

basketball players are Draen Dalipovi, Dragan Kianovi, Vlade
Divac, Aleksandar orevi, Predrag Danilovi, Predrag Stojakovi
and Milo Teodosi.

In the first basketball league the most decorated clubs are

Partizan with 19 medals, and Crvena Zvezda with 15 medals.
Partizan is the most awarded in the National Cup, called the Kora
Cup. By Valentina Demirovski

-ALEKSANDAR OREV

-DRAGAN KIANOVI

-VLADE DIVAC - DEJAN BODIROGA

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