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Borislav Ćorković

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Nationality
  
Serbian

Coaching career
  
1958–1993

1958–1960
  
Železničar Belgrade

Position
  
Basketball coach

Playing career
  
1952–1958

1952–1958
  
Dinamo Pančevo

1960–1965
  
OKK Belgrade (juniors)

Born
  
9 January 1933 Dvor na Uni, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (
1933-01-09
)

Died
  
26 January 2006, Belgrade, Serbia

Borislav "Reba" Ćorković (in Serbs Борислав Ћорковић) (January 9, 1933, Dvor na Uni – January 26, 2006, Belgrade), was a Yugoslav basketball player and coach.

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Playing career

Borislav Ćorković played club basketball at the senior level, from 1952 to 1958, with the Yugoslav League club Dinamo Pančevo.

Coaching career

Ćorković was a basketball expert and he brought two national championship titles in Partizan. With the female Yugoslav national team he won at the Balkan games of 1977 in Ankara, Turkey, the gold medal, and at 1978 same games in Thessaloniki the bronze medal. At the 16th European Championship (1978) in Poznań he won with the female "plavi" team, the silver medal (record 7 wins – 2 loses against USSR and Poland).

His coaching career began in 1958 with Železničar Belgrade. From 1960 to 1965 he trained young teams, mostly women, in OKK Belgrade. In 1965, passed from Partizan where he was head coach of women's senior team (ŽKK Partizan), also he coached the younger men's team. On the bench senior team of 'black and white' was head coach five seasons (1974–75, 1975–76, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1989–90) and since 1998 he worked as a counselor at the youth facilities of Partizan . The young players of the club called him with many love and respet "Dad".

Club competitions

As head coach:

  • Yugoslav League: 2 (with Partizan: 1975–76, 1980–81)
  • also

  • FIBA European Champions Cup – top 6 (with Partizan: 1981–82)
  • FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup – quarterfinalist (with Partizan: 1989–90)
  • FIBA Korać Cup – semifinalist (with Partizan: 1974–75)
  • References

    Borislav Ćorković Wikipedia