Žarko Varajić
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December 26, 1951 Nikšić, PR Montenegro, FPR Yugoslavia |
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| Nationality | Serbian | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 2.02 m (6 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 91 kg (201 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing career | 1969–1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Small forward | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1969–1981 | Bosna | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1982 | Al Ain BC | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1982–1984 | Bosna | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Žarko Varajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Жарко Варајић; born December 26, 1951 in Nikšić, PR Montenegro, FPR Yugoslavia) is a retired Serbian basketball player that represented SFR Yugoslavia as a player. Before he started to play basketball, he played football for the pioneer team of BC Sutjeska from Niksic. Varajic lives in Belgrade since 1992. He graduated from the University of Physical Education, Academy for Basketball Coaches - section Basketball and Academy for Sport`s Managers.
Eighteen-year-old Varajić arrived at Bosna, a club competing in the second-tier of Yugoslav basketball, in 1970. With young players such as Ante Đogić, Rođeni Krvavac, and center Zdravko Čečur on the roster, the club sought promotion to the top-tier Yugoslav First League, a feat that had been eluding them for decades.
During summer 1971, the head coaching post was taken over by the 24-year-old Bogdan Tanjević who had just retired from playing. The young squad led by a young rookie head coach, with new acquisition 22-year-old Svetislav Pešić from KK Partizan, the only player on the roster to have previously played top-tier basketball, KK Bosna managed to gain promotion to the top-tier Yugoslav First League.
In 1979, Varajić scored 47 points – the record in the number of points scored in the final matches of the European Champions' Cup (nowadays, called the EuroLeague) during the period he played with Bosna Sarajevo against the Italian Emerson Varese in Bosna's triumph 96-93, in Grenoble, France.
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