Vlado Đurović
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 16, 1948 Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Serbian/Greek |
| Career information | |
| Playing career | 1964–1973 |
| Coaching career | 1973–present |
| Career history | |
| As player: | |
| 1964–1973 | OKK Beograd |
| As coach: | |
| 1973–1978 | OKK Beograd (assistant) |
| 1978–1982 | Sloboda Tuzla |
| 1982–1984 | Šibenka |
| 1984–1985 | Budućnost |
| 1985–1986 | KK Zadar |
| 1986–1988 | Red Star Belgrade |
| 1988–1993 | Panionios |
| 1993–1994 | Aris |
| 1994–1995 | A.E.K. |
| 1995–1996 | Limoges CSP |
| 1996–1997 | Panionios |
| 1997 | AEL Limassol |
| 1997–1998 | Oostende (Telindus) |
| 1998–1999 | Okapi Aalstar |
| 1999–2000 | Dafni B.C. |
| 2000 | Achilleas |
| 2000–2001 | Okapi Aalstar |
| 2001–2002 | ASVEL (assistant) |
| 2002 | Budućnost |
| 2002–2004 | FMP |
| 2004–2005 | Lietuvos rytas |
| 2005–2006 | NIS Vojvodina |
| 2006–2007 | CSKA Sofia |
| 2008–2009 | Metalac Valjevo |
| 2009–2010 | FMP |
| 2011–2014 | OKK Beograd |
| 2015–2016 | OKK Beograd |
Vlade Đurović (also known as Vlado Jurović) (Serbian Cyrillic: Владе Ђуровић; born May 16, 1948) is a Serbian former basketball player and current basketball coach.
Đurović was born to parents Danilo Đurović from Sokolac and Mileva Cerović from Rogatica, both active World War II participants on the Partisan side who moved to Belgrade after the war, got married, and started a family.
Growing up in the Belgrade neighbourhood of Cerak, young Vlade played various sports, including football, basketball, and handball. At one point during the late 1950s, he even considered pursuing football in a more structured environment, registering for Red Star Belgrade's youth categories under the tutelage of up and coming young coach Miljan Miljanić, but soon gave it up.
His successful athletic career started as a basketball player in OKK Beograd in 1959. After passing different age levels within the club's youth system, Đurović made his first team debut in 1964. He ended up playing until 1973.
By the end of his playing career, he wanted to stay at OKK Beograd, he finished a coaching school and became the first professional in the history of the "OKK Belgrade." In the "OKK Belgrade" has worked with juniors and cadets. For his coaching career thankful to his godbrother Bogdan Tanjević, who persuaded him to train Sloboda Dita from Tuzla, and thus begins his rich coaching career (1978).
In 1982 Đurović, became head coach of Šibenka and he had the extraordinary luck to train young Dražen Petrović. In 1983 he won the championship title with Šibenka but only for sixteen hours, as the Board of Directors of the Basketball Association of Yugoslavia, to an urgently convened session, decided to cancel the game and ordered a rematch in Novi Sad. Šibenka decided to boycott it, and the title was awarded to Bosna. In the same year reached with Šibenka, the final of FIBA Korać Cup but was defeated for the second consecutive time by the same team, the French Limoges of Richard Dacoury and Ed Murphy.
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