Božidar Maljković
Maljković coaching Slovenia at EuroBasket in September 2011.
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| Personal information | |
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| Born |
April 20, 1952 Otočac, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Career information | |
| Playing career | 1971–2013 |
| Position | Head coach |
| Career history | |
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| 1971–1977 | Ušće Belgrade |
| 1980–1982 | Radnički Belgrade |
| 1982 | KK Lifam Stara Pazova |
| 1986–1990 | Jugoplastika Split |
| 1990–1991 | FC Barcelona |
| 1992–1995 | Limoges |
| 1995–1997 | Panathinaikos |
| 1997–1998 | PSG Racing |
| 1998–2003 | Unicaja Málaga |
| 2004–2006 | Real Madrid |
| 2007 | TAU Cerámica |
| 2011–2012 | Lokomotiv Kuban |
| 2011–2013 | Slovenia |
| 2012 | Cedevita |
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Božidar "Boža" Maljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Божидар "Божо" Маљковић; born 20 April 1952) is a Serbian professional basketball coach, one of the most successful in Europe, having won league titles with practically all the clubs he trained; including four Euroleague titles with three different clubs (Jugoplastika Split, Limoges, and Panathinaikos).
In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors. Most recently, he spent three years as head coach of the Slovenian national basketball team.
His daughter Marina is a Serbian professional basketball coach, currently coaching Galatasaray.
Born in Otočac within the region of Lika, Maljković's family moved to Kraljevo when he was eight and in that time he set a record for crossing a road distance from Kraljevo to Vrnjacka Banja in less than 30 minutes with some old rusty bike.
He took up basketball at the age of 12, playing the shooting guard position at KK Sloga. Assessing his own playing skills, Maljković later said: "I had a decent shot, but no defensive skills. As a coach I would never pick Maljković the player in any serious team".
Having ended his playing career prematurely, at only 19 years of age, Maljković started coaching immediately in the small, freshly established, basketball club KK Ušće, in Belgrade. In fact, Maljković is listed as one of the four people who founded the club in 1971 on the initiative of the local communist authorities from the New Belgrade municipality. Reportedly, the catalyst to establish a new community-based basketball club was the gruesome murder that occurred within a family living in the Ušće neighbourhood when a father murdered his own son; the shock throughout the community prompted the local authorities into deciding to create a basketball club in order to provide the neighbourhood youngsters with something to do. The murder came on the heels of the general increase in criminality in the Ušće local community numbering some 12,000 residents, mostly newly arrived families of the Yugoslav People's Army personnel from all over SFR Yugoslavia, all of which only sped up the process of establishing a basketball club as means of channeling the energy of the local youth into something positive.
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