Serbian basketball player and executive (1948–2024)
Dragan Kapičić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Капичић; 7 August 1948 – 24 June 2024) was a Serbian professional basketball player and executive.
Club career
Kapičić played with Crvena zvezda, in his hometown of Belgrade, in the Yugoslav First Federal League, from 1965 to 1977. His teammates were Zoran Slavnić, Ljubodrag Simonović, Dragiša Vučinić, and Vladimir Cvetković among others. With them, he won two Yugoslav National League championships, three Yugoslav National Cup titles, and one European-wide secondary level FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup (later called FIBA Saporta Cup) championship. He is Crvena zvezda's all-time club leader in total points scored.[1]
In the late stage of his club career, he played with Saturn Köln of the German League.[2]
National team career
Kapičić played in 169 games with the senior Yugoslavian national team. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics.[3] With Yugoslavia, he won gold medals at the 1970 FIBA World Championship, and the 1975 EuroBasket.
Post-playing career
Kapičić was the President of the Basketball Federation of Serbia, from April 2007 to April 2011.
Personal life
Kapičić is the son of Jovo Kapičić (1919‒2013), who was a Yugoslav People's Army General and recipient of the Order of the People's Hero.[4] He married Slobodanka "Beba" Žugić,[5] a Montenegrin actress. The couple had two sons.
His son Stefan (b. 1978), is an actor who is best known for playing his role of Colossus in Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018). In the 2015 Serbian sports drama We Will Be the World Champions, Kapičić is portrayed by his son Stefan.[6]
Kapičić died in Belgrade on 24 June 2024, at the age of 75.[7]
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